CVE Database · CVE-2011-1485
CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
5.25%
Published
May 31, 2011
Modified
Apr 28, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit (4)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
Description
Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the effective user ID instead of the real user ID.
Weaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (1)
References (20)