Policykit

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Policykit, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

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The 6 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Policykit.

• CVE-2018-19788A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.8.8Dec 3, 2018
• CVE-2016-2568pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer.7.8Feb 13, 2017
• CVE-2011-4945PolicyKit 0.103 sets the AdminIdentities to "wheel" by default, which allows local users in the wheel group to gain root privileges without authentication.6.9Oct 1, 2012
• CVE-2011-1485Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the eff...6.9May 31, 2011
• CVE-2010-0750pkexec.c in pkexec in libpolkit in PolicyKit 0.96 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files via the argument.2.1Apr 6, 2010
• CVE-2008-1658Format string vulnerability in the grant helper (polkit-grant-helper.c) in PolicyKit 0.7 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via fo...4.6Apr 11, 2008