CVE-2014-5033
KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 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)…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.36%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 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, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.9 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 0.36% probability · 29th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- Affected
- debian/kde4libs · canonical/ubuntu linux · kde/kauth · kde/kdelibs
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 0.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.html
- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482a
- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23Exploit, Patch
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1359.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60385
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60633
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60654
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3004
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140730-1.txtVendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2304-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.html
- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482a
- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23Exploit, Patch
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1359.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60385
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60633
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60654
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3004
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140730-1.txtVendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2304-1
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.