Policykit
6 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.
This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Policykit, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.
Policykit CVEs per month
| Month | CVEs |
|---|---|
| 2024-10 | 0 |
| 2024-11 | 0 |
| 2024-12 | 0 |
| 2025-01 | 0 |
| 2025-02 | 0 |
| 2025-03 | 0 |
| 2025-04 | 0 |
| 2025-05 | 0 |
| 2025-06 | 0 |
| 2025-07 | 0 |
| 2025-08 | 0 |
| 2025-09 | 0 |
| 2025-10 | 0 |
| 2025-11 | 0 |
| 2025-12 | 0 |
| 2026-01 | 0 |
| 2026-02 | 0 |
| 2026-03 | 0 |
| 2026-04 | 0 |
| 2026-05 | 0 |
| 2026-06 | 0 |
| 2026-07 | 0 |
| 2026-08 | 0 |
| 2026-09 | 0 |
Severity
How the 6 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.
- High2
- Medium3
- Low1
Latest CVEs
The 6 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Policykit.
- CVE-2018-19788A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.8.8
- CVE-2016-2568pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer.7.8
- CVE-2011-4945PolicyKit 0.103 sets the AdminIdentities to "wheel" by default, which allows local users in the wheel group to gain root privileges without authentication.6.9
- CVE-2011-1485Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the eff...6.9
- CVE-2010-0750pkexec.c in pkexec in libpolkit in PolicyKit 0.96 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files via the argument.2.1
- CVE-2008-1658Format string vulnerability in the grant helper (polkit-grant-helper.c) in PolicyKit 0.7 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via fo...4.6
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