Description
There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being spawned
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- POLKIT_PROJECT
- Published
- 2/21/2022
- Last Modified
- 11/21/2024
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
polkit_project : polkitredhat : enterprise_linuxfedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedoracanonical : ubuntu_linuxcanonical : ubuntu_linuxdebian : debian_linuxoracle : zfs_storage_appliance_kit
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