RLSA-2021:2238

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / RLSA-2021:2238

    RLSA-2021:2238

    Published: 3 Jun 2021Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-3560

    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. Security Fix(es): * polkit: local privilege escalation using polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync() (CVE-2021-3560) For 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.

    References: https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:2238, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961710

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: polkit

    Purl: pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/polkit?distro=rocky-linux-8-4-legacy&epoch=0

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0:0.115-11.el8_4.1

    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
    RLSA-2021:2238 | CVE-DB