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
problem types: CWE-400
affected:
{
vendor: n/a
product: polkitd
versions:
version: 0.117, status: affected
}