Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-5617 - Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
low complexity
gksu-polkit-project
fedoraproject
CWE-269
nessus

Summary

gksu-polkit: permissive PolicyKit policy configuration file allows privilege escalation

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Gksu-Polkit_Project
1
OS
Fedoraproject
2

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Restful Privilege Elevation
    Rest uses standard HTTP (Get, Put, Delete) style permissions methods, but these are not necessarily correlated generally with back end programs. Strict interpretation of HTTP get methods means that these HTTP Get services should not be used to delete information on the server, but there is no access control mechanism to back up this logic. This means that unless the services are properly ACL'd and the application's service implementation are following these guidelines then an HTTP request can easily execute a delete or update on the server side. The attacker identifies a HTTP Get URL such as http://victimsite/updateOrder, which calls out to a program to update orders on a database or other resource. The URL is not idempotent so the request can be submitted multiple times by the attacker, additionally, the attacker may be able to exploit the URL published as a Get method that actually performs updates (instead of merely retrieving data). This may result in malicious or inadvertent altering of data on the server.

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2013-13620.NASL
    description - Recreate tarball from proper sources; previous package was shipping an unknown code tarball. - Add proper patching for CVE-2012-5617/CVE-2013-4161, the previous fix was creating a patch file and not patching the code. - Use proper bus name in service file to fix service timeout. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2013-08-05
    plugin id69208
    published2013-08-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/69208
    titleFedora 19 : gksu-polkit-0.0.3-8.gitf8ce834c.fc19 (2013-13620)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2013-3032.NASL
    descriptiongksu-polkit security update Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2013-03-07
    plugin id65065
    published2013-03-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65065
    titleFedora 18 : gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18 (2013-3032)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2013-13616.NASL
    description - Recreate tarball from proper sources; previous package was shipping an unknown code tarball. - Add proper patching for CVE-2012-5617/CVE-2013-4161, the previous fix was creating a patch file and not patching the code. - Use proper bus name in service file to fix service timeout. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2013-08-05
    plugin id69206
    published2013-08-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/69206
    titleFedora 18 : gksu-polkit-0.0.3-8.gitf8ce834c.fc18 (2013-13616)