Bug 2182784

Summary: polkit: Privilege escalation from polkitd user
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2023-03-29 15:23:53 UTC 
Default rules in polkit may lead to privilege escalation from the polkitd user.

References:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q1/208
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/191
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/191#note_1824052
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/merge_requests/153/diffs
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2023-03-29 15:24:09 UTC 
Created polkit tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2182785]