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CVE-2011-1485 Details

Description

Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the effective user ID instead of the real user ID.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html	CVE	Patch
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html	CVE	Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922	CVE	Patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/48817	CVE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml	CVE
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424	CVE
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319	CVE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086	CVE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html	CVE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1	CVE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html	[email protected]	Patch
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html	[email protected]	Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922	[email protected]	Patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/48817	[email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml	[email protected]
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424	[email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319	[email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086	[email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html	[email protected]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1	[email protected]

see all 20 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-362	Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
redhat policykit	0.96
CPE cpe:2.3:a:redhat:policykit:0.96:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 29, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jun 1, 2011	Initial Analysis	[email protected]