CVE-2011-1485

38Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 5.2%

from disclosure to weapon127 days

Published on NVDMay 31

1st PoC+127d

metasploitApr 1

exploitation probability

5.2%top 8% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

4 public exploit(s)

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 effective user ID instead of the real user ID.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 4

githubgithub.com/Pashkela/CVE-2011-1485★ 0 exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/35021unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/17942unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/17932unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922 http://secunia.com/advisories/48817 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1