CVE-2013-4161 Privilege escalation in gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18

What is CVE-2013-4161?

CVE-2013-4161 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 31 Dec 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18 was reported as fixing the issue in CVE-2012-5617 but the patch was improperly applied and it did not fixed the security issue.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4161?

It affects 2 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2013-4161?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-4161 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-4161 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4161 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-qcpv-2v8g-jgvc.