CVE-2013-4325
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.9EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
The check_permission_v1 function in base/pkit.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) through 3.13.9 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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (36th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-4212)
- Published
- September 23, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-4212 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
- hp / linux imaging and printing project
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00062.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00000.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1274.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2829
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1956-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006674
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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