CVE detail
CVE-2013-1066 — CVE-2013-1066
Published 2013-10-03 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor ubuntu_developers · Product language-selector · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0037
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
30.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
language-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.
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