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CVE

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.
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CVE

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.

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.

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
7.8
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
0
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?fieldcve=CVE-2021-3560, http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172836/polkit-Authentication-Bypass.html, http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172846/Facebook-Fizz-Denial-Of-Service.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showbug.cgi?id=1961710, https://github.blog/2021-06-10-privilege-escalation-polkit-root-on-linux-with-bug/

Severity

7.8

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
7.8
EPSS Probability
0.12149%
EPSS Percentile
0.93604%
Introduced Version
0
Fix Available
2e5348bf4eb0ef984db32f7f96ec6722d441c6ca,0:0.115-11.el8_4.1,0.105-31,0:0.105-31,0:0.105-26ubuntu1.1,0.119-r0,0.119,0:0.115-11.0.1.el8_4.1

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