Vulnerability Instance
Lookup for vulnerabilities affecting packages.
GET /api/vulnerabilities/38406?format=api
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A local user could use this flaw to appear as a privileged user to\n pkexec, allowing them to execute arbitrary commands as root by running\n those commands with pkexec.\n\n Those vulnerable include RHEL6 prior to polkit-0.96-2.el6_0.1 and Ubuntu\n libpolkit-backend-1 prior to 0.96-2ubuntu1.1 (10.10) 0.96-2ubuntu0.1\n (10.04 LTS) and 0.94-1ubuntu1.1 (9.10)", "required_action": null, "due_date": null, "notes": "Reliability:\n - unknown-reliability\nStability:\n - unknown-stability\nSideEffects:\n - unknown-side-effects\n", "known_ransomware_campaign_use": false, "source_date_published": "2011-04-01", "exploit_type": null, "platform": "Linux", "source_date_updated": null, "data_source": "Metasploit", "source_url": "https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/tree/master/modules/exploits/linux/local/pkexec.rb" } ], "severity_range_score": "6.9 - 6.9", "exploitability": "2.0", "weighted_severity": "6.2", "risk_score": 10.0, "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/vulnerabilities/VCID-dn8s-xk69-qugj" }