CLEANSTART-2024-YS78342

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    CLEANSTART-2024-YS78342

    Published: 31 Oct 2026Last Modified: 31 Oct 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-3560

    Summary: 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

    Details: Security vulnerability affects the polkit package. 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.

    References: https://github.com/cleanstart-dev/cleanstart-security-advisories/tree/main/advisories/2024/CLEANSTART-2024-YS78342.json, https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-3560, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3560

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: polkit

    Purl: pkg:apk/cleanstart/polkit

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.119-r0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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