Detections
Analytics
CVE-2013-1063
high
Description
usb-creator 0.2.47 before 0.2.47.1, 0.2.40 before 0.2.40ubuntu2, and 0.2.38 before 0.2.38.2 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, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.
References
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.47.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.40ubuntu2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/0.2.38.2