CVE-2021-3560 (GCVE-0-2021-3560)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-16 00:00 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:15
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a polkit Affected: polkit 0.119
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