Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting polkit-docs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-POLKITDOCS-15857034
  • published31 Mar 2026
  • disclosed26 Mar 2026

Introduced: 26 Mar 2026

NewCVE-2026-4897  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 polkit-docs.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream polkit-docs package and not the polkit-docs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in polkit. A local user can exploit this by providing a specially crafted, excessively long input to the polkit-agent-helper-1 setuid binary via standard input (stdin). This unbounded input can lead to an out-of-memory (OOM) condition, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the system.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1