CVE-2011-1485
Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the
02 Description
Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.24% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 92.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2011-05-31 20:00Z15 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 22:28Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2011-03-21
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')Class
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 53abb1b6b55e40b8c1e11ae2562f39b229636860b4156a2354651a135fd1badc
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2011:0455http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922
- www.debian.orgDSA-2319http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319
- securityreason.com8424http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2011-5676http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-1117-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2011-5589http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201204-06http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml
- secunia.com48817http://secunia.com/advisories/48817
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2011:086http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- policykit-1 Fixed in 0.101-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- policykit-1 Fixed in 0.101-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- policykit-1 Fixed in 0.101-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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