Vulnerabilities (CVE)

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CVE-2021-4115 5 Canonical, Debian, Fedoraproject and 2 more 5 Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, Fedora and 2 more 2022-07-25 2.1 LOW 5.5 MEDIUM
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-2019-6133 4 Canonical, Debian, Polkit Project and 1 more 9 Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, Polkit and 6 more 2020-08-24 4.4 MEDIUM 6.7 MEDIUM
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-2018-1116 3 Canonical, Debian, Polkit Project 3 Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, Polkit 2020-05-05 3.6 LOW 4.4 MEDIUM
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.