Microsoft security update for CVE-2021-3560 — cm1 polkit 0.116-6 on CBL Mariner 1.0
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- cm1 polkit 0.116-6 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 0.116-6 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2021-3560
- EchelonGraph score
- 9.0 CRITICAL
- CISA KEV
- Listed since May 12, 2023
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2021-3560, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).