CVE-2013-1066

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-1066
StatePUBLISHED
Assignercanonical
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-10-03 21:55:03 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Descriptionlanguage-selector 0.110.x before 0.110.1, 0.90.x before 0.90.1, and 0.79.x before 0.79.4 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.6 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 - lts All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 13.04 All All All
Application Ubuntu Developers Language-selector 0.110 All All All
Application Ubuntu Developers Language-selector 0.79 All All All
Application Ubuntu Developers Language-selector 0.79.1 All All All
Application Ubuntu Developers Language-selector 0.79.2 All All All
Application Ubuntu Developers Language-selector 0.79.3 All All All
Application Ubuntu Developers Language-selector 0.90 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-1958-1: language-selector vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory
Security Advisory SA54911 - Ubuntu update for language-selector - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
0.79.4 : “language-selector” package : Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 launchpad.net Patch
0.110.1 : “language-selector” package : Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 launchpad.net Patch
0.90.1 : “language-selector” package : Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 launchpad.net Patch
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
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