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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-3560: polkit security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-3560: polkit security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/09/2021
Created
09/30/2021
Added
09/29/2021
Modified
05/15/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-polkit
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-polkit-libs

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