CVE-2013-1064

medium

Published 2013-10-03 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.6

Description

apt-xapian-index before 0.45ubuntu2.1, 0.44ubuntu7.1, and 0.44ubuntu5.1 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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Ubuntu Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.04	Affected	—
12.10	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
sid	Fixed	`0.47`
forky	Fixed	`0.47`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.47`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.47`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
canonical	apt-xapian-index	`{"startIncluding":"0.45ubuntu1","endExcluding":"0.45ubuntu2.1"}`	`0.45ubuntu2.1`
canonical	apt-xapian-index	`0.44ubuntu5.1`
canonical	apt-xapian-index	`0.44ubuntu7.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.