Description
It was found that polkit could be tricked into bypassing the credential checks for D-Bus requests, elevating the privileges of the requestor to the root user. This flaw could be used by an unprivileged local attacker to, for example, create a new local administrator. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a polkit
polkit 0.119affected
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961710 ↗
- https://github.blog/2021-06-10-privilege-escalation-polkit-root-on-linux-with-bug/ ↗
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172836/polkit-Authentication-Bypass.html ↗
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172846/Facebook-Fizz-Denial-Of-Service.html ↗
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-3560 ↗