polkit: local privilege escalation using polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync()

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...

Important: polkit security update

The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. Security Fixes: polkit: local privilege escalation using polkitsystembusnamegetcredssync...

RLSA-2021:2238 Important: polkit security update

The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. Security Fixes: polkit: local privilege escalation using polkitsystembusnamegetcredssync...

polkit security update

An update is available for polkit. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges...

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...

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...

UBUNTU-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...

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An update of 'polkit' packages of Photon OS has been released...

polkit 代码问题漏洞

polkit is a component for controlling system-wide permissions in Unix-like operating systems. It enables communication between processes of different priority by defining and auditing permission rules. A code issue vulnerability exists in polkit that stems from the inability of a requesting proce...

PT-2021-3362

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Polkit versions prior to 0.119 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 unprivilege...

Important Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2021-0397

Updates of 'polkit' packages of Photon OS have been released...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : polkit vulnerability (USN-4980-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4980-1 advisory. Kevin Backhouse discovered that polkit incorrectly handled errors in the polkitsystembusnamegetcredssync function. A local attacker could possibly use this issue ...

RHEL 8 : polkit (RHSA-2021:2237)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2237 advisory. The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privilege...

Polkit D-Bus Authentication Bypass

A vulnerability exists within the polkit system service that can be leveraged by a local, unprivileged attacker to perform privileged operations. In order to leverage the vulnerability, the attacker invokes a method over D-Bus and kills the client process. This will occasionally cause the operati...

Important Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2021-0037

Updates of 'polkit' packages of Photon OS have been released...

Important Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2021-4.0-0037

Updates of 'polkit' packages of Photon OS have been released...

Privilege Escalation

systemd is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The XDGSEAT environment variable can be spoofed, which allows for commands to be checked against polkit policies using the allowactive element instead of the allowany...

systemd: Spoofing of XDG_SEAT allows for actions to be checked against "allow_active" instead of "allow_any"

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 polkit policies using the...

libvirt: double free in qemuAgentGetInterfaces() in qemu_agent.c

A double free memory issue was found to occur in the libvirt API 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 limited ACL permissions cou...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2020:2969-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...