CVE-2018-19788

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19788
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-19788.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-19788
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-12-03T06:29:00.243Z
Modified
2026-03-10T14:36:46.539445Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.

References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
b0a5d0f1a5b835819da630a6d27ed89dd4d7f464
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.115"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.100
0.101
0.102
0.103
0.104
0.105
0.106
0.107
0.108
0.109
0.110
0.111
0.112
0.113
0.114
0.115
0.91
0.92
0.93
0.94
0.95
0.96
0.97
0.98
0.99
Other
POLICY_KIT_0_3
POLICY_KIT_0_4
POLICY_KIT_0_5
POLICY_KIT_0_6
POLICY_KIT_0_7
POLICY_KIT_0_8
POLICY_KIT_0_9
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Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "16.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "18.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "18.10"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-19788.json"