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FKIE_CVE-2018-19788

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-12-03 06:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:49
Severity
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2046
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3232
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/915332Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/74Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00021.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-2/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4350Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2046
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3232
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/915332Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/74Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00021.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240816-0001/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-2/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4350Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
polkit_project polkit 0.115
debian debian_linux 8.0
debian debian_linux 9.0
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.10
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