vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-6133
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jan 11, 2019 | Jan 20, 2025 | Mar 9, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 11, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 9, 2026
Description
In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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