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.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
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Alpine | edge-community | noarch | polkit | <Β 0.119-r0 | UNKNOWN |
Alpine | 3.14-community | noarch | polkit | <Β 0.119-r0 | UNKNOWN |
Alpine | 3.15-community | noarch | polkit | <Β 0.119-r0 | UNKNOWN |
Alpine | 3.16-community | noarch | polkit | <Β 0.119-r0 | UNKNOWN |
Alpine | 3.17-community | noarch | polkit | <Β 0.119-r0 | UNKNOWN |
Alpine | 3.18-community | noarch | polkit | <Β 0.119-r0 | UNKNOWN |
Alpine | 3.19-community | noarch | polkit | <Β 0.119-r0 | UNKNOWN |
Alpine | 3.20-community | noarch | polkit | <Β 0.119-r0 | UNKNOWN |