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CVE-2018-19788

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 11.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-12-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Polkit Project Polkit: 0.115

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2046
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3232
• https://bugs.debian.org/915332
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/74
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00021.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-2/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4350
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2046
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3232
• https://bugs.debian.org/915332

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