Security advisory

{
  "id": "1dfe8ef0452ef54e7aac8d02ba179ed4a7052d468d1d3db1283dad6efd1f840a",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1116",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-1116",
    "summary": "A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and information disclosure.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-1116",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-1116",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-1116"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "b0a5d0f1a5b835819da630a6d27ed89dd4d7f464"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:polkit_project:polkit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.115"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.114",
            "0.113",
            "0.112",
            "0.111",
            "0.110",
            "0.109",
            "0.108",
            "0.107",
            "0.106",
            "0.105",
            "0.104",
            "0.103",
            "0.102",
            "0.96",
            "0.101",
            "0.100",
            "0.99",
            "0.98",
            "0.97",
            "0.95",
            "0.94",
            "0.93",
            "0.92",
            "0.91",
            "POLICY_KIT_0_9",
            "POLICY_KIT_0_8",
            "POLICY_KIT_0_7",
            "POLICY_KIT_0_6",
            "POLICY_KIT_0_5",
            "POLICY_KIT_0_4",
            "POLICY_KIT_0_3",
            "start"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-1116.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:24.667579908Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00042.html",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-14",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3717-2/",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1116",
        "https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=bc7ffad5364"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "12.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "12.04"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-1116",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431192,
  "published_at": "2018-07-10T19:29:00.29+00:00"
}