Red Hat Security Advisory

RHSA-2021:2236

polkit security update

Released 2021-06-03 · Red Hat rating Important · View on Red Hat →

Fixed in

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.1) polkit-0.115-9.el8_1.1, polkit-devel-0.115-9.el8_1.1, polkit-docs-0.115-9.el8_1.1 +1

Fixes 1 record

TI-2021-02511 CVE-2021-3560 · GHSA-7c49-j253-wq5r

Incorrect authorization in polkit

CRITICAL 93KEV

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.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8 Local Low privileges No interaction EPSS 0.22193 Published 2022-02-16 Fixed CWE-863