{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2011-04-19T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "polkit: polkitd/pkexec vulnerability",
    "id" : "692922",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the effective user ID instead of the real user ID." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Neel Mehta (Google) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-04-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0455",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "polkit-0:0.96-2.el6_0.1"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1485\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1485" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2011-1485",
  "csaw" : false
}