CVE-2019-6133
6.7
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.03%
Description
In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.
How to fix CVE-2019-6133
To remediate CVE-2019-6133, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/polkit—upgrade to 0.105-r10 or later
- —upgrade to 4.19.16-1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.105-25 or later
Is CVE-2019-6133 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 0.105-r10
- from 0, < 4.19.16-1
- from 0, < 0.105-25
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |