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CVE-2012-5617

HIGH

7.8

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1850%

EPSS Percentile22.09th

PublishedNov 25, 2019

Last ModifiedNov 21, 2024

Vulnerability Description

gksu-polkit: permissive PolicyKit policy configuration file allows privilege escalation

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Gksu Polkit Project

Gksu Polkit

All versions

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Fedoraproject

Fedora

= 18

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Fedoraproject

Fedora

= 19

References & Advisories

🔗 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113182.html

🔗 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113218.html

🔗 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/099739.html

🔗 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/12/8

🔗 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56918

🔗 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5617

🔗 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5617

🔗 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113182.html

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