Red Hat Polkit Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability

Red Hat Polkit contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability through the bypassing of credential checks for D-Bus requests, allowing for privilege escalation.

cat cve-2021-3560.json

Vendor: Red Hat
Product: Polkit
CVSS: 7.8
EPSS (exploit probability): 22.2%
Status: kev
CISA patch-by (BOD 22-01): June 2, 2023
Published: May 12, 2023
Source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3560

Red Hat Polkit contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability through the bypassing of credential checks for D-Bus requests, allowing for privilege escalation.

Added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2023-05-12. Required action per CISA: Apply updates per vendor instructions. Due date: 2023-06-02.

This is an auto-synced KEV catalog record pending a full 0dayNews write-up — see CISA’s KEV catalog and the NVD record linked above for primary sources.