CVE-2013-4325
The check_permission_v1 function in base/pkit.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) through 3.13.9 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.42%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The check_permission_v1 function in base/pkit.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) through 3.13.9 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.9 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 0.42% probability · 35th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- hp/linux imaging and printing project
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00062.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00000.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1274.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2829
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1956-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006674
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00062.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00000.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1274.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2829
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1956-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006674
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.