CVE-2010-4664

HIGH 8.8CVE-2010-4664 · Published 13/11/2019 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2010-4664 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting consolekit (consolekit project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 68.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.4.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
consolekit consolekit_project	`< 0.4.2`	`0.4.2`

Description

In ConsoleKit before 0.4.2, an intended security policy restriction bypass was found. This flaw allows an authenticated system user to escalate their privileges by initiating a remote VNC session.

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-4664 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4664 · Third Party Advisory

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