VDB
CVE-2011-1485
CVE-2011-1485
PUBLISHED
CVSS 6.900000095367432 MEDIUM
Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the effective user ID instead of the real user ID.
EPSS 5.25% · 91.7th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 2.0
6.900000095367432
EPSS Score
5.25%
91.7th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
| redhat | policykit | 0.96 |
Timeline
- May 31, 2011 CVE Published
- Oct 4, 2011 PoC Published
- Oct 7, 2011 PoC Published
- Oct 18, 2014 PoC Published
- May 29, 2018 PoC Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 3, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- USN-1117-1 vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2011-5589 vendor-advisory
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1485 advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922 url
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html url
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml url
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319 url
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086 url
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424 technical
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html technical
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48817 technical