language-selector 0.110.x before 0.110.1, 0.90.x before 0.90.1, and 0.79.x before 0.79.4 does not properly use D-Bus for communication…

Description

language-selector 0.110.x before 0.110.1, 0.90.x before 0.90.1, and 0.79.x before 0.79.4 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.38% · top 68% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.90.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• languageselector-cve20131066-sec-bypass(87379) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.110.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-1958-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.79.4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 54911 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2013-1066](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2013-1066.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2013-1066)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 14:49 UTC.