CVE-2014-5033 describes a race condition in KDE kdelibs and kauth, affecting Canonical, Debian, and KDE products. This flaw allows local users to bypass access restrictions by exploiting a D-Bus communication vulnerability with polkit authority, specifically a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition through setuid or pkexec processes. With a CVSS score of 6.9, it carries a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires medium attack complexity and local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:debian:kde4libs:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts:*:*:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
<= 5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kde:kauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 4.13.97CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kde:kdelibs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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