Bug 2182784 - polkit: Privilege escalation from polkitd user
Summary: polkit: Privilege escalation from polkitd user
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2182785
Blocks: 2182790
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-03-29 15:23 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2023-04-03 17:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2023-04-03 17:33:17 UTC
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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]
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