VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2021-3560

Red Hat Polkit contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability through the bypassing of credential checks for D-Bus requests, allowing for privilege escalation...

Red Hat Polkit Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability

Red Hat Polkit contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability through the bypassing of credential checks for D-Bus requests, allowing for privilege escalation...

Fedora: Security Advisory for polkit (FEDORA-2023-41bdb7dba8)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: polkit-122-3.fc38.1

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

Fedora 38 : polkit (2023-41bdb7dba8)

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-41bdb7dba8 advisory. config file permission change to increase security of polkitd Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisor...

Fedora: Security Advisory for polkit (FEDORA-2023-4936e4e7f1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: polkit-121-4.fc37.2

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

Fedora 37 : polkit (2023-4936e4e7f1)

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-4936e4e7f1 advisory. config file permission change to increase security of polkitd Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisor...

Siemens devices Out-of-bounds Read/Write (CVE-2021-4034)

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 according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters coun...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : polkit Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2023-0027)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has polkit packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkitbackendinteractiveauthoritycheckauthorization function in polkitd...

Important: polkit

Issue Overview: 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 according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling...

Amazon Linux 2023 : polkit, polkit-devel, polkit-libs (ALAS2023-2023-026)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-026 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...

Fedora: Security Advisory for polkit-kde (FEDORA-2023-e31c3e4b6c)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: polkit-kde-5.27.1-1.fc37

Provides Policy Kit Authentication Agent that nicely fits to KDE...

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...

K41410307: polkit vulnerability CVE-2021-3560

Security Advisory 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...

K91040959: Polkit vulnerabilities CVE-2018-1116 and CVE-2018-19788

Security Advisory Description CVE-2018-1116 A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkitbackendinteractiveauthoritycheckauthorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users...

K46015513: Polkit pkexec vulnerability CVE-2021-4034

Security Advisory Description 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 according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't hand...

SUSE CVE-2011-0703

In gksu-polkit before 0.0.3, the source file for xauth may contain arbitrary commands that may allow an attacker to overtake an administrator X11 session...

SUSE CVE-2013-4311

libvirt 1.0.5.x before 1.0.5.6, 0.10.2.x before 0.10.2.8, and 0.9.12.x before 0.9.12.2 allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition in pkcheck via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288...