CVE-2013-1065: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

backend.py in Jockey before 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.11 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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only
• Martin Pitt Jockey: up to and including 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.10; version 0.9.7-0ubuntu7 only; version 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.1 only; version 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.2 only; version 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.3 only; version 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.4 only; …

Published 2013-10-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.