CVE-2021-3560

CVE-2021-3560 PolKit Race Condition Local Privilege Escalation Analysis toc Vulnerability Overview Vulnerability ID: CVE-2021-3560 Vulnerability Score: Vulnerable Product: Linux PolKit polkitd Affected Versions: Introduced in source code 0.113;...

CVE-2011-1485-pkexec-exploit

CVE-2011-1485 Linux pkexec and polkitd 0.96 race condition privilege escalation exploit. Developed in 2011 by Antonius ev1lut10n / w1sdom...

CentOS Linux 6 [TuxCare] Security Update: polkit / polkit-desktop-policy / polkit-devel / polkit-docs (CENTOS6:CLSA-2026:1780070303)

The CentOS Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TuxCare CENTOS6:CLSA-2026:1780070303 advisory. - A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkitbackendinteractiveauthoritycheckauthorization function in...

pkexec-exploit-2011

Linux pkexec and polkitd...

MiracleLinux 7 : polkit-0.112-26.el7 (AXSA:2020-4540:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2020-4540:01 advisory. polkit: Improper authorization in polkitbackendinteractiveauthoritycheckauthorization function in polkitd CVE-2018-1116 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

SUSE CVE-2011-1485

Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit aka polkit 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the effective user ID instead of the real user ID...

SUSE CVE-2015-3256

PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."...

CentOS 7 : polkit (RHSA-2020:1135)

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1135 advisory. - A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkitbackendinteractiveauthoritycheckauthorization function in polkitd allows to...

DEBIAN-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...

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...

PT-2018-10352

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions polkit versions prior to 0.116 Description A flaw in the implementation of the polkit backend interactive authority check authorization function in polkitd allows testing for authentication and triggering authentication of unrelated processes...

Race condition

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...

PT-2017-17808

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Back In Time versions 1.1.18 and earlier Description The issue concerns a race condition in the authorization method used by the checkPolkitPrivilege function. This function utilizes a deprecated polkit authorization method, which is susceptib...

CVE-2015-3256

PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."...

Memory corruption

PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."...

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...

CVE-2015-3256

PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."...

Null pointer dereference

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...

CVE-2015-3256

PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."...

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...