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.
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur | commit introducing issue was backported to policykit-1 version in Ubuntu in focal+ |
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
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ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | policykit-1 | <Β 0.105-26ubuntu1.1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 20.10 | noarch | policykit-1 | <Β 0.105-29ubuntu0.1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 21.04 | noarch | policykit-1 | <Β 0.105-30ubuntu0.1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 21.10 | noarch | policykit-1 | <Β 0.105-31 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | policykit-1 | <Β 0.105-31 | UNKNOWN |