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CVE-2013-1066

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
03/10/2013
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

language-selector 0.110.x before 0.110.1, 0.90.x before 0.90.1, and 0.79.x before 0.79.4 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
4.60
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu_developers:language-selector:0.79:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu_developers:language-selector:0.79.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu_developers:language-selector:0.79.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu_developers:language-selector:0.79.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu_developers:language-selector:0.90:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu_developers:language-selector:0.110:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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