CVE-2013-4324: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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

spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkit_unix_process_new API function, 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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only
• Spice-Gtk Project Spice-Gtk: version 0.14 only

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