CVE detail
CVE-2013-1061 — CVE-2013-1061
Published 2013-10-03 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor marc_deslauriers · Product software-properties · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0036
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
29.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py in Software Properties 0.92.17 before 0.92.17.3, 0.92.9 before 0.92.9.3, and 0.82.7 before 0.82.7.5 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.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References