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CVE-2014-5033Not scoredCWE-362

CVE-2014-5033: Kde Kauth vulnerability

Kde · Kauth

Vendor fix available · Affected: Kde Kauth · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

0.4%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
30th percentile
050100

Higher than 30% of scored CVEs

Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.

DescriptionCVE.org

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."

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Exploitation
Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public check
No public nuclei template
Vendor
Kde
Published
August 2014

CoverageNo articles yet

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