CVE-2021-3560 log

Source
Severity Medium
Remote No
Type Privilege escalation
Description
A security issue was found in polkit before version 0.119. When a requesting process disconnects from dbus-daemon just before the call to polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync starts, the process cannot get a unique uid and pid of the process and it cannot verify the privileges of the requesting process.
Group Package Affected Fixed Severity Status Ticket
AVG-2028 polkit 0.118-1 0.119-1 Medium Fixed
Date Advisory Group Package Severity Type
09 Jun 2021 ASA-202106-24 AVG-2028 polkit Medium privilege escalation
References
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/06/03/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961710
https://github.blog/2021-06-10-privilege-escalation-polkit-root-on-linux-with-bug/
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/commit/a04d13affe0fa53ff618e07aa8f57f4c0e3b9b81