CVE-2014-5033
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.9EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 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, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."
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-362
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (30th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-4932)
- Published
- August 19, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-4932 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / kde4libs
- kde / kauth
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
- kde / kdelibs
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00012.html
- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kauth.git&a=commit&h=341b7d84b6d9c03cf56905cb277b47e11c81482a
- http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=e4e7b53b71e2659adaf52691d4accc3594203b23(Exploit, Patch)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1359.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60385
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60633
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60654
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3004
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20140730-1.txt(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2304-1
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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