CVE-2012-5617 Privilege escalation in gksu-polkit

What is CVE-2012-5617?

CVE-2012-5617 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 25 Nov 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

gksu-polkit: permissive PolicyKit policy configuration file allows privilege escalation

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5617?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Gksu-Polkit Project Gksu-Polkit.

How do I fix CVE-2012-5617?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-5617 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2012-5617 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5617 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
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• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r394-7r6f-7rfv.