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
vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system
availability.

Bugs

• <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/140&gt;
• <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961710&gt;

Notes