{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2018-07-10T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "polkit: Improper authorization in polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd",
    "id" : "1595404",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595404"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.4",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-285",
  "details" : [ "A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and information disclosure.", "It was found that Polkit's CheckAuthorization and RegisterAuthenticationAgent D-Bus calls did not validate the client provided UID. A specially crafted program could use this flaw to submit arbitrary UIDs, triggering various denial of service or minor disclosures, such as which authentication is cached in the victim's session." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2020-03-31T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:1135",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "polkit-0:0.112-26.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "polkit",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "polkit",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1116\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1116" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2018-1116",
  "csaw" : false
}