CyberRota Analysis
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2019-6133
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.7
EPSS
0.45%
Original NVD 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.