PT-2019-6594 · Consolekit · Consolekit

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2019-11-13 · Updated 2019-11-18 · CVE-2010-4664

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ConsoleKit versions prior to 0.4.2

Description A security policy restriction bypass was found, allowing an authenticated system user to escalate their privileges by initiating a remote VNC session.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.4.2, update to version 0.4.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Privilege Management

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-4664

Affected Products

Consolekit

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4664 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4664 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2010-4664 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4664 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-4664 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-4664 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4664 · Note