CVE-2015-4625

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CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

0.40%

Published

Oct 26, 2015

Modified

May 6, 2026

Public PoC / Exploit

All weaponized →

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

Description

Integer overflow in the authentication_agent_new_cookie function in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to gain privileges by creating a large number of connections, which triggers the issuance of a duplicate cookie value.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-189

Affected Products (5)

fedoraproject · fedoravulnerable

opensuse · opensusevulnerable

polkit_project · polkitvulnerable

References (20)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161721.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162294.html

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-July/000432.html

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-June/000427.html

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2015-May/000419.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00010.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00042.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/08/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/09/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/21

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75267

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035023