{"id":"RLSA-2021:2238","summary":"Important: polkit security update","details":"The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* polkit: local privilege escalation using polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync() (CVE-2021-3560)\n\nFor more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.","modified":"2026-02-04T09:30:10.839508Z","published":"2021-06-03T07:54:47Z","upstream":["CVE-2021-3560"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:2238"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961710"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"polkit","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/polkit?distro=rocky-linux-8-4-legacy&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:0.115-11.el8_4.1"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"BaseOS"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2021:2238.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}