Polkit Project vulnerabilities2 known to be exploited.
Polkit Project has 11 published vulnerabilities across 1 product in our catalogue. 2 of them are on the list of flaws known to be exploited, so criminals are using them now. The most affected product is Polkit, with 11. If you run Polkit Project software, patch the exploited flaws first.
The most recent Polkit Project flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2021-3560, on 12 May 2023. We keep watching the known-exploited list.
Which Polkit Project products have the most vulnerabilities?
Polkit leads with 11 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.
Which Polkit Project vulnerabilities are being exploited?
2 flaws are on the government list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited. These are the ones criminals are using now, so they go first, whatever their severity score says.
- 7.8Red Hat Polkit Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability
Red Hat Polkit contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability through the bypassing of credential checks for D-Bus requests, allowing for privilege escalation.
- 7.8Red Hat Polkit Out-of-Bounds Read and Write Vulnerability
The Red Hat polkit pkexec utility contains an out-of-bounds read and write vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation with administrative rights.
Which Polkit Project flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 95%
A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility.
- 24%
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.
- 12%CVE-2018-19788High
A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.
- 1.2%CVE-2018-1116Medium
A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116.
- 0.5%CVE-2021-4115Medium
There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion.
- 0.4%CVE-2019-6133Medium
In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached.
- 0.4%
The authentication_agent_new 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...
- 0.4%CVE-2015-4625Medium
Integer overflow in the authentication_agent_new_cookie function in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to gain privileges by creating a large number of connections, which triggers the issuance of...
- 0.4%CVE-2015-3255Medium
The polkit_backend_action_pool_init function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendactionpool.c in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 might allow local users to gain privileges via duplicate action IDs in action descriptions.
- 0.4%CVE-2015-3256Medium
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...
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Red Hat Polkit contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability through the bypassing of credential checks for D-Bus requests, allowing for privilege escalation.
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Our catalogue lists 11 published vulnerabilities across 1 product and 38 versions from Polkit Project. The most recent Polkit Project flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2021-3560, on 12 May 2023.
2 Polkit Project vulnerabilities are on the list of flaws known to be exploited. The most recently added are CVE-2021-3560 and CVE-2021-4034. The full list is on this page.
Polkit, with 11 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.
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