CVE-2013-1066 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the language-selector package (versions 0.110.x before 0.110.1, 0.90.x before 0.90.1, and 0.79.x before 0.79.4) affecting Canonical and Ubuntu Linux distributions. The flaw stems from improper D-Bus communication with a polkit authority, allowing local users to bypass access restrictions through a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via setuid or pkexec processes. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), this vulnerability requires local access and has low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.79CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu_developers:language-selector:0.79:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.79.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu_developers:language-selector:0.79.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.79.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu_developers:language-selector:0.79.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.79.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu_developers:language-selector:0.79.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.90CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu_developers:language-selector:0.90:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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