CVE-2013-4161
HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: December 31, 2019 at 06:13 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:56 PM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsFedoraGksu PolkitGksu Polkit
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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18 was reported as fixing the issue in CVE-2012-5617 but the patch was improperly applied and it did not fixed the security issue.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (5)
x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113182.htmlx_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113218.htmlx_refsource_MISCBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4161x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4161x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4161CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-269
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