CVE-2025-53391

CVE-2025-53391 affects Debian zuluCrypt (zulucrypt_6.2.0-1) where PolicyKit settings in zuluPolkit/CMakeLists.txt are insecure (allow_any/allow_inactive/allow_active). This misconfiguration allows a local user to escalate privileges to root via PolicyKit authorization. Debian patched this issue (...

CVE-2025-53391

The Debian zuluPolkit/CMakeLists.txt file for zuluCrypt through the zulucrypt6.2.0-1 package has insecure PolicyKit allowany/allowinactive/allowactive settings that allow a local user to escalate their privileges to root...

CVE-2025-53391

Removed by vendor...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-4625

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Integer overflow in the authenticationagentnewcookie function in PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to gain privileges by creating a large...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-19788

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in PolicyKit aka polkit 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INTMAX to successfully execute any systemctl command. CVE-2018-19788...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-3218

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The authenticationagentnew function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c in PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a deni...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Polkit_Project Polkit

CVE-2021-4034-CTF-writeup This is a CTF pwn challenge that I w...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Polkit_Project Polkit

CVE-2021-4034-CTF-writeup This is a CTF pwn challenge that I w...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Polkit_Project Polkit

Pwnkit Vulnerability - CVE-2021-4034 :greenbook: Introd...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : PackageKit vulnerabilities (USN-4538-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4538-1 advisory. Vaisha Bernard discovered that PackageKit incorrectly handled certain methods. A local attacker could use this issue to learn the...

K22715344: PolicyKit vulnerability CVE-2019-6133

Security Advisory Description In PolicyKit aka polkit 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c...

SUSE CVE-2008-1658

Format string vulnerability in the grant helper polkit-grant-helper.c in PolicyKit 0.7 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in a password...

SUSE CVE-2011-1485

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...

SUSE CVE-2011-2176

GNOME NetworkManager before 0.8.6 does not properly enforce the authadmin element in PolicyKit, which allows local users to bypass intended wireless network sharing restrictions via unspecified vectors...

SUSE CVE-2011-3364

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the svEscape function in settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/shvar.c in the ifcfg-rh plug-in for GNOME NetworkManager 0.9.1, 0.9.0, 0.8.1, and possibly other versions, when PolicyKit is configured to allow users to create new connections, allows local users to execute...

SUSE CVE-2011-4945

PolicyKit 0.103 sets the AdminIdentities to "wheel" by default, which allows local users in the wheel group to gain root privileges without authentication...

SUSE CVE-2013-4288

Race condition in PolicyKit aka polkit allows local users to bypass intended PolicyKit restrictions and gain privileges by starting a setuid or pkexec process before the authorization check is performed, related to 1 the polkitunixprocessnew API function, 2 the dbus API, or 3 the --process...

SUSE CVE-2013-4394

The SetX11Keyboard function in systemd, when PolicyKit Local Authority PKLA is used to change the group permissions on the X Keyboard Extension XKB layouts description, allows local users in the group to modify the Xorg X11 Server configuration file and possibly gain privileges via vectors...

SUSE CVE-2015-3255

The polkitbackendactionpoolinit function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendactionpool.c in PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 might allow local users to gain privileges via duplicate action IDs in action descriptions...

SUSE CVE-2015-4625

Integer overflow in the authenticationagentnewcookie function in PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to gain privileges by creating a large number of connections, which triggers the issuance of a duplicate cookie value...