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...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Polkit_Project Polkit

CVE-2021-4034 This is a PoC for PwnKit Local Privilege Esc...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Polkit_Project Polkit

PoC exploit for CVE-2021-4034, a privilege escalation vulnerability in the polkit package. The target product/service is polkit, a Linux system policy kit. The vulnerability class/vector is a privilege escalation vulnerability. The probable entry points are the gconv-modules file and the...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for polkit (EulerOS-SA-2023-1083)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS 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...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.6 : polkit (EulerOS-SA-2023-1083)

According to the versions of the polkit package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed ...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2023:0032-1)

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-SU-2023:0032-1 Security update for rpmlint-mini

This update for rpmlint-mini fixes the following issues: Update polkit-default-privs to version 13.2+20221216.a0c29e6: - backport usbguard actions bsc1206414...

PT-2023-36106 · Usbguard +1 · Usbguard +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: rpmlint-mini affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to an update for rpmlint-mini, which includes an update to polkit-default-privs version 13.2+20221216.a0c29e6. This update backports usbguard actions...