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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2022-02-16T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:01:06.571Z

Reserved: 2021-05-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-3560

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-02-16T19:15:08.450

Modified: 2024-06-27T19:23:50.913

Link: CVE-2021-3560

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2021-06-03T06:55:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-3560 - Bugzilla