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CVE-2013-4288

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4288 describes a race condition in PolicyKit (polkit) that allows local users to bypass security restrictions and gain elevated privileges. This vulnerability affects products from Canonical, openSUSE, Red Hat, and the polkit_project. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), it is easily exploitable locally with no authentication, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 0.112.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 26th percentile among its peer group of 3,241 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: polkit-0:0.96-5.el6_4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-4288Important

polkit: unix-process subject for authorization is racy

Sep 18, 2013

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00004.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00005.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00062.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00000.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1270.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1460.html
Third Party Advisory
seclists.org / oss-sec/2013/q3/626
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/09/18/4
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1953-1
Third Party Advisory