vulnerability

Rocky Linux: CVE-2019-3842: systemd (RLSA-2021-1611)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 9, 2019
Added
Mar 12, 2024
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

In systemd before v242-rc4, it was discovered that pam_systemd does not properly sanitize the environment before using the XDG_SEAT variable. It is possible for an attacker, in some particular configurations, to set a XDG_SEAT environment variable which allows for commands to be checked against polkit policies using the "allow_active" element rather than "allow_any".

Solutions

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