CVE-2014-5033: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 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, related to CVE-2013-4288 and "PID reuse race conditions."

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only
• Debian KDE4LIBS: affected versions not specified
• Kde Kauth: up to and including 5.0
• Kde Kdelibs: up to and including 4.13.97; version 4.10.0 only; version 4.10.1 only; version 4.10.2 only; version 4.10.3 only; version 4.10.95 only; …

Published 2014-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.