CVE Record
[ HIGH ]CVE-2021-4034
Red Hat Polkit Out-of-Bounds Read and Write Vulnerability
The Red Hat polkit pkexec utility contains an out-of-bounds read and write vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation with administrative rights.
- Vendor
- Red Hat
- Product
- Polkit
- CVSS
- 7.8
- EPSS (exploit probability)
- 94.9%
- Status
- kevransomware use
- CISA patch-by (BOD 22-01)
- Published
The Red Hat polkit pkexec utility contains an out-of-bounds read and write vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation with administrative rights.
Added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-06-27. Required action per CISA: Apply updates per vendor instructions. Due date: 2022-07-18.
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.