description: It was found that polkit could be tricked into bypassing the credential checks for D-Bus requests, elevating the privileges of the requestor to the root user. This flaw could be used by an unprivileged local attacker to, for example, create a new local administrator. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
problem types: CWE-863
affected:
{
vendor: n/a
product: polkit
versions:
version: polkit 0.119, status: affected
}