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Unrated severityCISA KEVNVD Advisory· Published Feb 16, 2022· Updated Oct 21, 2025

CVE-2021-3560

CVE-2021-3560

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.

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