CVE-2014-5033 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2014-5033

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not...

Vulnerability Description

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 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, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

kde4libs, ubuntu linux, kauth, kdelibs
Vulnerable Versions:
12.04, 14.04, 0, 4.10.0, 4.10.1, 4.10.2, 4.10.3, 4.10.95, 4.10.97, 4.11.0, 4.11.1, 4.11.2, 4.11.3, 4.11.4, 4.11.5, 4.11.80, 4.11.90, 4.11.95, 4.11.97, 4.12.0, 4.12.1, 4.12.2, 4.12.3, 4.12.4, 4.12.5, 4.12.80, 4.12.90, 4.12.95, 4.12.97, 4.13.0, 4.13.1, 4.13.2, 4.13.3, 4.13.80, 4.13.90, 4.13.95

Timeline

Official Publish: August 19th, 2014
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.