Security Advisory
CVE-2019-6133
6.7
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
January 11, 2019
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory