CVE-2013-4288
Race condition in PolicyKit (aka polkit) allows local users to bypass intended PolicyKit restrictions and gain privileges by starting a…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.34%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 72% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Race condition in PolicyKit (aka polkit) allows local users to bypass intended PolicyKit restrictions and gain privileges by starting a setuid or pkexec process before the authorization check is performed, related to (1) the polkit_unix_process_new API function, (2) the dbus API, or (3) the --process (unix-process) option for authorization to pkcheck.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.34% · top 72% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1528 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1270 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1527 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130918 Fwd: [vs-plain] polkit races (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130918 Re: Fwd: [vs-plain] polkit races (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1617 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1620 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1460 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- USN-1953-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-4184 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2013-4288)Record last updated .