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CVE-2019-3842

CVE-2019-3842

CVSS 4.5 MEDIUMEPSS 1.2%CWE-285
Vexday Risk Score
33Attention
SSVC decision (CISA)
Attend
PoC available → attend closely
CVSS 4.5EPSS 1.2%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei Metasploit Patch referenciado
Lifecycle
09 Apr 2019Published on NVD
23 Apr 2019Public PoC
Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.
In systemd before v242-rc4, it was discovered that pam_systemd does not properly sanitize the environment before using the XDG_SEAT variable. It is possible for an attacker, in some particular configurations, to set a XDG_SEAT environment variable which allows for commands to be checked against polkit policies using the "allow_active" element rather than "allow_any".
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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