Polkit Project Polkit vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-4115 [MEDIUM] CWE-400 CVE-2021-4115: There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to proc There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being spawned

CVE-2021-3560 [HIGH] CWE-863 CVE-2021-3560: It was found that polkit could be tricked into bypassing the credential checks for D-Bus requests, e 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

CVE-2021-4034 [HIGH] CWE-787 CVE-2021-4034: A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec applicat A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters count correctly and ends trying to execute environment variabl

CVE-2019-6133 [MEDIUM] CWE-362 CVE-2019-6133: In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork( 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. This is related to lack of uid checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.

CVE-2018-19788 [HIGH] CWE-20 CVE-2018-19788: A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX 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.

CVE-2018-1116 [MEDIUM] CWE-285 CVE-2018-1116: A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactiv A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and information disclosure.

CVE-2015-4625 [MEDIUM] CWE-189 CVE-2015-4625: Integer overflow in the authentication_agent_new_cookie function in PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0. 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 a duplicate cookie value.

CVE-2015-3255 [MEDIUM] CWE-264 CVE-2015-3255: The polkit_backend_action_pool_init function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendactionpool.c in PolicyKit 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.

CVE-2015-3256 [MEDIUM] CWE-264 CVE-2015-3256: PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corrupti 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 evaluation."

CVE-2015-3218 [LOW] CVE-2015-3218: The authentication_agent_new function in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c in Policy 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 daemon crash) by calling RegisterAuthenticationAgent with an invalid object path.

CVE-2013-4288 [HIGH] CWE-362 CVE-2013-4288: Race condition in PolicyKit (aka polkit) allows local users to bypass intended PolicyKit restriction Race condition in PolicyKit (aka polkit) allows local users to bypass intended PolicyKit restrictions and gain privileges by starting a setuid or pkexec process before the authorization check is performed, related to (1) the polkit_unix_process_new API function, (2) the dbus API, or (3) the --process (unix-process) option for authorization to pkcheck.