CVE-2021-3560

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3560
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-02-16 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:38:00 UTC
DescriptionIt 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.

Risk And Classification

EPSS: 0.109120000 probability, percentile 0.933620000 (date 2026-04-01)

CISA KEV: Listed on 2023-05-12; due 2023-06-02; ransomware use Unknown

Problem Types: CWE-754

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

VendorRed Hat
ProductPolkit
NameRed Hat Polkit Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability
Required ActionApply updates per vendor instructions.
Noteshttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961710; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3560

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Application Polkit Project Polkit All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift Container Platform 4.7 All All All
Application Redhat Virtualization 4.0 All All All
Application Redhat Virtualization Host 4.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Facebook Fizz Denial Of Service ≈ Packet Storm packetstormsecurity.com
polkit Authentication Bypass ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
1961710 – (CVE-2021-3560) CVE-2021-3560 polkit: local privilege escalation using polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync() MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Privilege escalation with polkit: How to get root on Linux with a seven-year-old bug | The GitHub Blog MISC github.blog Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog CISA www.cisa.gov kev

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159244 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for polkit (ELSA-2021-2238)
  • 179889 Debian Security Update for policykit-1 (CVE-2021-3560)
  • 198399 Ubuntu Security Notification for polkit vulnerability (USN-4980-1)
  • 239363 Red Hat Update for polkit (RHSA-2021:2238)
  • 239364 Red Hat Update for polkit (RHSA-2021:2237)
  • 239365 Red Hat Update for polkit (RHSA-2021:2236)
  • 239490 Red Hat Update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.19 (RHSA-2021:2555)
  • 281486 Fedora Security Update for polkit (FEDORA-2021-0ec5a8a74b)
  • 281706 Fedora Security Update for polkit (FEDORA-2021-3f8d6016c9)
  • 296053 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 35.94.4 Missing (CPUJUL2021)
  • 376987 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for polkit (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0035)
  • 501899 Alpine Linux Security Update for polkit
  • 670553 EulerOS Security Update for polkit (EulerOS-SA-2021-2311)
  • 670779 EulerOS Security Update for polkit (EulerOS-SA-2021-2537)
  • 670803 EulerOS Security Update for polkit (EulerOS-SA-2021-2561)
  • 690112 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for polkit (36a35d83-c560-11eb-84ab-e0d55e2a8bf9)
  • 710037 Gentoo Linux polkit Privilege escalation (GLSA 202107-31)
  • 750102 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for polkit (SUSE-SU-2021:1844-1)
  • 750103 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for polkit (SUSE-SU-2021:1842-1)
  • 750104 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for polkit (SUSE-SU-2021:1843-1)
  • 750173 OpenSUSE Security Update for polkit (openSUSE-SU-2021:0838-1)
  • 750763 OpenSUSE Security Update for polkit (openSUSE-SU-2021:1843-1)
  • 770072 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 Security Update (RHSA-2021:2555)
  • 770103 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 Security Update (RHSA-2021-2555)
  • 900684 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for polkit (8686)
  • 940425 AlmaLinux Security Update for polkit (ALSA-2021:2238)
  • 960004 Rocky Linux Security Update for polkit (RLSA-2021:2238)
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