ghsa-vvr6-r92h-x7jw
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-02-22 00:00
Modified
2022-07-26 00:00
Severity ?
Details
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
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2021-4115"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2022-02-21T22:15:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "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",
"id": "GHSA-vvr6-r92h-x7jw",
"modified": "2022-07-26T00:00:37Z",
"published": "2022-02-22T00:00:18Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4115"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-4115"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/polkit/-/merge_requests/6/diffs?commit_id=bf900df04dc390d389e59aa10942b0f2b15c531e"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/141"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VGKWCBS6IDZYYDYM2WIWJM5BL7QQTWPF"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172849/polkit-File-Descriptor-Exhaustion.html"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
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