SUSE CVE-2013-4324

spice-gtk 0.14, and possibly other versions, invokes the polkit authority using the insecure polkitunixprocessnew API function, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process...

SUSE CVE-2013-4325

The checkpermissionv1 function in base/pkit.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing HPLIP through 3.13.9 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race conditio...

SUSE CVE-2013-4326

RealtimeKit aka rtkit 0.5 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, a related issue to...

SUSE CVE-2013-4327

systemd does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288...

SUSE CVE-2014-5033

KDE kdelibs before 4.14 and kauth before 5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, related to...

SUSE CVE-2015-3218

The authenticationagentnew function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c in PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and polkitd daemon crash by calling RegisterAuthenticationAgent with an invalid object path...

SUSE CVE-2017-7572

The checkPolkitPrivilege function in serviceHelper.py in Back In Time aka backintime 1.1.18 and earlier uses a deprecated polkit authorization method unix-process that is subject to a race condition time of check, time of use. With this authorization method, the owner of a process requesting a...

SUSE 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. This may result in a local DoS and informati...

SUSE CVE-2019-3842

In systemd before v242-rc4, it was discovered that pamsystemd does not properly sanitize the environment before using the XDGSEAT variable. It is possible for an attacker, in some particular configurations, to set a XDGSEAT environment variable which allows for commands to be checked against polk...

SUSE CVE-2019-13272

In the Linux kernel before 5.1.17, ptracelink in kernel/ptrace.c mishandles the recording of the credentials of a process that wants to create a ptrace relationship, which allows local users to obtain root access by leveraging certain scenarios with a parent-child process relationship, where a...

SUSE CVE-2020-1712

A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version v245-rc1, where asynchronous Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages. A local unprivileged attacker can abuse this flaw to crash systemd services or potentially execute code and elevate their privileges, by...

SUSE CVE-2020-15238

Blueman is a GTK+ Bluetooth Manager. In Blueman before 2.1.4, the DhcpClient method of the D-Bus interface to blueman-mechanism is prone to an argument injection vulnerability. The impact highly depends on the system configuration. If Polkit-1 is disabled and for versions lower than 2.0.6, any...

SUSE CVE-2020-25637

A double free memory issue was found to occur in the libvirt API, in versions before 6.8.0, responsible for requesting information about network interfaces of a running QEMU domain. This flaw affects the polkit access control driver. Specifically, clients connecting to the read-write socket with...

SUSE CVE-2021-3560

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...

SUSE 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...

SUSE CVE-2021-4115

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 vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being...

SUSE CVE-2022-23220

USBView 2.1 before 2.2 allows some local users e.g., ones logged in via SSH to execute arbitrary code as root because certain Polkit settings e.g., allowany=yes for pkexec disable the authentication requirement. Code execution can, for example, use the --gtk-module option. This affects Ubuntu,...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2022:0525-2)

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...

SUSE SLES15 Security Update : polkit (SUSE-SU-2022:0525-2)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0525-2 advisory. - CVE-2021-4115: Fixed a denial of service via file descriptor leak bsc1195542. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block direct...

Nutanix AHV : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AHV-20220304.242)

The version of AHV installed on the remote host is prior to 20220304.242. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AHV-20220304.242 advisory. - In Expat aka libexpat before 2.4.5, there is an integer overflow in storeRawNames. CVE-2022-25315 - In Expat aka...