{
    "id": "CVE-2011-1485",
    "published": "2011-05-31 20:55:02",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-16 23:29:28",
    "cvss_score": "6.9",
    "cvss_severity": "MEDIUM",
    "cvss_version": "2.0",
    "cvss_vector": "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "cwe": "CWE-362",
    "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.",
    "epss_score": "0.05246",
    "epss_percentile": "0.92284",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-10-02 18:17:11",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "redhat",
            "product": "policykit"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "35021",
            "title": "Linux PolicyKit - Race Condition Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)",
            "date": "2014-10-20",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35021"
        },
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "17942",
            "title": "pkexec - Race Condition Privilege Escalation",
            "date": "2011-10-08",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17942"
        },
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "17932",
            "title": "PolicyKit polkit-1 < 0.101 - Local Privilege Escalation",
            "date": "2011-10-05",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17932"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html",
        "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/48817",
        "http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml",
        "http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424",
        "http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319",
        "http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086",
        "http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html",
        "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922",
        "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html",
        "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/48817",
        "http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml",
        "http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424",
        "http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319",
        "http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086",
        "http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html",
        "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922"
    ]
}