Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in spice-gtk - CVE-2013-4324
Published: October 4, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32599
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4324
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Spice-Space
Affected software:
spice-gtk
spice-gtk
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkit_unix_process_new API function, 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4324
Install update from vendor's website.