NVD
- Id
- 84865
- Name
- CVE-2017-7572
- Description
- The _checkPolkitPrivilege function in serviceHelper.py in Back In Time (aka backintime) 1.1.18 and earlier uses a deprecated polkit authorization method (unix-process) that is subject to a race condition (time of check, time of use). With this authorization method, the owner of a process requesting a polkit operation is checked by polkitd via /proc/<pid>/status, by which time the requesting process may have been replaced by a different process with the same PID that has different privileges then the original requester.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 9.3
- Severity
- High
- CVSS Base Score
- 9.3
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 10
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 8.6
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
- Pub Date
- 2017-04-27
- Published
- 2017-04-06
- Modified Date
- 2017-04-12
- Seq
- 2017-7572