Access Restriction Bypass Affecting freedesktop/polkit package, versions [,0.113)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEDESKTOPPOLKIT-2366579
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Oct 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Oct 2015

CVE-2015-3256  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freedesktop/polkit to version 0.113 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1