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...

WS-2023-0091

A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in polkit. Polkit stores rules in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d. We follow the upstream provided permissions for this folder, so polkitd owns it and permissions are set to 700. Since the user owns the directory it's easy to escalate from user polkitd to root...

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...

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-2013-4324

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-2013-4326

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...