{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 4 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4288 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2013-4288 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 3 Oct 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2013-4288 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2013-4288 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 3 Oct 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4288 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Canonical Ubuntu Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4288/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4288/index.md)","id":"CVE-2013-4288","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4288/index.md","name":"CVE-2013-4288","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4288","GHSA-6wv7-fpg8-f44q","RHSA-2013:1270"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux PolicyKit","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can exploit a race condition in PolicyKit to bypass authorization checks and gain elevated 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