CVE-2018-19788

high-risk
Published 2018-12-03

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.

Do I need to act?

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59.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 40% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 8.8/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (8)

Affected Vendors

Debian Canonical Polkit Project

References (19)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2046
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3232
Issue Tracking https://bugs.debian.org/915332
Exploit https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/74
Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00021.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-1/
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-2/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4350
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2046
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3232
Issue Tracking https://bugs.debian.org/915332
Exploit https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/74
Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00021.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240816-0001/
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-1/
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3861-2/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4350
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high-risk
Severity 30/34 · Critical
Exploitability 18/34 · Moderate
Exposure 14/34 · Moderate