Security Advisory

CVE-2021-3560

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-02-16 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-10-21 23:15:46
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.