Summary
The Red Hat polkit pkexec utility contains an out-of-bounds read and write vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation with administrative rights.
- Vendor
- Red Hat
- Product
- Polkit
- Added to KEV
- Jun 27, 2022
- Remediation due
- Jul 18, 2022 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- EPSS
- 94.9% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References