polkit bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for polkit. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 9.5...

CVE-2025-27512

Zincati is an auto-update agent for Fedora CoreOS hosts. Zincati ships a polkit rule which allows the zincati system user to use the actions org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.deploy to deploy updates to the system and org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.finalize-deployment to reboot the system into the...

Zincati allows unprivileged access to rpm-ostree D-Bus `Deploy()` and `FinalizeDeployment()` methods

Impact Zincati ships a polkit rule which allows the zincati system user to use the following actions: - org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.deploy: used to deploy updates to the system - org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.finalize-deployment: used to reboot the system into the deployed update Since Zincati...

GHSA-W6FV-6GCC-X825 Zincati allows unprivileged access to rpm-ostree D-Bus `Deploy()` and `FinalizeDeployment()` methods

Impact Zincati ships a polkit rule which allows the zincati system user to use the following actions: - org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.deploy: used to deploy updates to the system - org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.finalize-deployment: used to reboot the system into the deployed update Since Zincati...

CVE-2025-27512 Zincati allows unprivileged access to rpm-ostree D-Bus `Deploy()` and `FinalizeDeployment()` methods

Zincati is an auto-update agent for Fedora CoreOS hosts. Zincati ships a polkit rule which allows the zincati system user to use the actions org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.deploy to deploy updates to the system and org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.finalize-deployment to reboot the system into the...

CVE-2025-27512

CVE-2025-27512 affects Zincati’s polkit rule for Fedora CoreOS. A logic error in Zincati v0.0.24–v0.0.29 broadens access to the actions org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.deploy and org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.finalize-deployment to any unprivileged user with system D-Bus access, allowing deployment o...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-4115

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-1116

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 polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkitbackendinteractiveauthoritycheckauthorization function in polkitd allows to tes...

CVE-2025-23222

An issue was discovered in Deepin dde-api-proxy through 1.0.19 in which unprivileged users can access D-Bus services as root. Specifically, dde-api-proxy runs as root and forwards messages from arbitrary local users to legacy D-Bus methods in the actual D-Bus services, and the actual D-Bus servic...

CVE-2025-23222

Deepin dde-api-proxy (v1.0.19 and earlier) exposes a local privilege-escalation flaw: the daemon runs as root and forwards local user D-Bus requests to legacy D-Bus services, which do not detect the proxy context. This can allow unprivileged users to access D-Bus methods that should be restricted...

SUSE CVE-2025-23222

An issue was discovered in Deepin dde-api-proxy through 1.0.19 in which unprivileged users can access D-Bus services as root. Specifically, dde-api-proxy runs as root and forwards messages from arbitrary local users to legacy D-Bus methods in the actual D-Bus services, and the actual D-Bus servic...

CVE-2016-2568 affecting package polkit 0.119-4

CVE-2016-2568 affecting package polkit 0.119-4. No patch is available currently...

CVE-2016-2568 affecting package polkit 0.116-7

CVE-2016-2568 affecting package polkit 0.116-7. No patch is available currently...

PT-2026-1887

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions TLP versions prior to 1.9.1 TLP version 1.9.0 Description TLP version 1.9.0 introduces a profiles daemon that provides a D-Bus interface. A flaw exists in this daemon that allows local attackers to bypass Polkit authentication. This bypass is...

Amazon Linux 2022 : polkit, polkit-devel, polkit-libs (ALAS2022-2022-016)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-016 advisory. A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users accordin...

Fedora 41 : polkit (2024-d2e583eab4)

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-d2e583eab4 advisory. Setting loglevels and target via LogControl now allowed to root only https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/issues/506...

NetworkManager-libreswan: Local privilege escalation via leftupdown

A flaw was found in the libreswan client plugin for NetworkManager NetkworkManager-libreswan, where it fails to properly sanitize the VPN configuration from the local unprivileged user. In this configuration, composed by a key-value format, the plugin fails to escape special characters, leading t...

Updated networkmanager-libreswan packages fix security vulnerability

A flaw was found in the libreswan client plugin for NetworkManager NetkworkManager-libreswan, where it fails to properly sanitize the VPN configuration from the local unprivileged user. In this configuration, composed by a key-value format, the plugin fails to escape special characters, leading t...

[SECURITY] Fedora 41 Update: polkit-125-1.fc41.1

polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes...

NetworkManager-libreswan: Local privilege escalation via leftupdown

A flaw was found in the libreswan client plugin for NetworkManager NetkworkManager-libreswan, where it fails to properly sanitize the VPN configuration from the local unprivileged user. In this configuration, composed by a key-value format, the plugin fails to escape special characters, leading t...