Description
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
Published: 2022-02-21
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-33995 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
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5304-1 PolicyKit vulnerability
History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00014}

epss

{'score': 0.00013}


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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Oracle Zfs Storage Appliance Kit
Polkit Project Polkit
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:16:04.361Z

Reserved: 2021-12-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-4115

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Status : Modified

Published: 2022-02-21T22:15:07.743

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:36:55.837

Link: CVE-2021-4115

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-02-14T13:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-4115 - Bugzilla

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