Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in spice-gtk - CVE-2013-4324

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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: 5.1 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4324
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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.


Affected software

spice-gtk
spice-gtk (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2013-4324

Install update from vendor's website.

spice-gtk (Alpine package) - update to 0.21-r0

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