EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : polkit (EulerOS-SA-2026-2222)

According to the versions of the polkit packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : A flaw was found in polkit. A local user can exploit this by providing a specially crafted, excessively long input to the polkit-agent-helper-1...

Exploit for Incorrect Authorization in Polkit_Project Polkit

CVE-2021-3560 — Polkit Privilege Escalation CVE-2021-3560 is...

RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.19 (RHSA-2021:2555)

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2555 advisory. - polkit: local privilege escalation using polkitsystembusnamegetcredssync CVE-2021-3560 - dhcp: stack-based buffer overflow when...

Exploit for Incorrect Authorization in Polkit_Project Polkit

CVE-2021-3560-Polkit-Privilege-Esclation PoC Original rese...

Fedora: Security Advisory (FEDORA-2026-1774635f74)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 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...

Amazon Linux 2023 : polkit, polkit-devel, polkit-libs (ALAS2023-2026-1546)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1546 advisory. A flaw was found in polkit. A local user can exploit this by providing a specially crafted, excessively long input to the polkit-agent-helper-1 setuid binary via standard input stdin. This unbounded...

Fedora 42 : polkit (2026-1774635f74)

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-1774635f74 advisory. CVE-2026-4897 aisle.com fix of unsanitized getline Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note tha...

Fedora 43 : polkit (2026-387a47c82b)

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-387a47c82b advisory. CVE-2026-4897 aisle.com fix of unsanitized getline Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note tha...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-4897

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in polkit. A local user can exploit this by providing a specially crafted, excessively long input to the polkit-agent-helper-1 setuid binary vi...

Fedora 44 : polkit (2026-d4bdf7108e)

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-d4bdf7108e advisory. backport of significant upstream patches Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus h...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.12.1 : polkit (EulerOS-SA-2026-1453)

According to the versions of the polkit packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : A flaw was found in polkit. When processing an XML policy with 32 or more nested elements in depth, an out-of-bounds write can be...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for polkit (EulerOS-SA-2026-1453)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 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...

MiracleLinux 7 : polkit-0.112-26.el7.1 (AXSA:2022-3017:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2022-3017:01 advisory. polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector CVE-2021-4034 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block...

MiracleLinux 8 : polkit-0.115-13.el8.2 (AXSA:2022-3159:03)

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2022-3159:03 advisory. polkit: file descriptor leak allows an unprivileged user to cause a crash CVE-2021-4115 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from t...

MiracleLinux 8 : polkit-0.115-11.el8.1 (AXSA:2021-2198:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2021-2198:01 advisory. polkit: local privilege escalation using polkitsystembusnamegetcredssync CVE-2021-3560 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from th...

MiracleLinux 4 : polkit-0.96-2.AXS4.1 (AXSA:2011-166:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2011-166:01 advisory. PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. Security...

MiracleLinux 7 : polkit-0.112-18.el7.1 (AXSA:2019-3762:02)

The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2019-3762:02 advisory. Security Fix - PolicyKitfork CVE-2019-6133 CVEJVNhttp://jvndb.jvn.jp/ Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux...

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...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.13.1 : polkit (EulerOS-SA-2025-2558)

According to the versions of the polkit packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : A flaw was found in polkit. When processing an XML policy with 32 or more nested elements in depth, an out-of-bounds write can be...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for polkit (EulerOS-SA-2025-2306)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 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...