Vulnerabilities > Polkit Project
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-02-21 | CVE-2021-4115 | There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. | 5.5 |
| 2022-02-16 | CVE-2021-3560 | Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in multiple products 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. | 7.8 |
| 2022-01-28 | CVE-2021-4034 | Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. | 7.8 |
| 2019-01-11 | CVE-2019-6133 | Race Condition vulnerability in multiple products 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. | 4.4 |
| 2018-12-03 | CVE-2018-19788 | Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products 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. | 9.0 |
| 2018-07-10 | CVE-2018-1116 | Missing Authorization vulnerability in multiple products A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. | 3.6 |
| 2015-10-26 | CVE-2015-4625 | Numeric Errors vulnerability in multiple products 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. | 4.6 |
| 2015-10-26 | CVE-2015-3256 | Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability in multiple products 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." | 4.6 |
| 2015-10-26 | CVE-2015-3255 | Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability in Polkit Project Polkit 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. | 4.6 |
| 2015-10-26 | CVE-2015-3218 | Local Denial of Service vulnerability in polkit 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. | 2.1 |