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Untriaged
Permalink CVE-2026-4897
5.5 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): LOCAL
  • Attack complexity (AC): LOW
  • Privileges required (PR): LOW
  • User interaction (UI): NONE
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): NONE
  • Integrity impact (I): NONE
  • Availability impact (A): HIGH
created 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Polkit: polkit: denial of service via unbounded input processing through standard input

A flaw was found in polkit. A local user can exploit this by providing a specially crafted, excessively long input to the `polkit-agent-helper-1` setuid binary via standard input (stdin). This unbounded input can lead to an out-of-memory (OOM) condition, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the system.

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Affected products

rhcos
polkit

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.polkit

Toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes

  • nixos-unstable 127
    • nixpkgs-unstable 127
    • nixos-unstable-small 127
  • nixos-25.11 126
    • nixos-25.11-small 126
    • nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 126

pkgs.cmd-polkit

Easily create polkit authentication agents by using commands

pkgs.polkit_gnome

Dbus session bus service that is used to bring up authentication dialogs

Untriaged
Permalink CVE-2025-7519
6.7 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): LOCAL
  • Attack complexity (AC): LOW
  • Privileges required (PR): HIGH
  • User interaction (UI): NONE
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): HIGH
  • Integrity impact (I): HIGH
  • Availability impact (A): HIGH
created 9 months ago
Polkit: xml policy file with a large number of nested elements may lead to out-of-bounds write

A flaw was found in polkit. When processing an XML policy with 32 or more nested elements in depth, an out-of-bounds write can be triggered. This issue can lead to a crash or other unexpected behavior, and arbitrary code execution is not discarded. To exploit this flaw, a high-privilege account is needed as it's required to place the malicious policy file properly.

Affected products

rhcos
polkit
  • =<126

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.polkit

Toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes

  • nixos-unstable 126
    • nixpkgs-unstable 126
    • nixos-unstable-small 126

pkgs.cmd-polkit

Easily create polkit authentication agents by using commands

pkgs.polkit_gnome

Dbus session bus service that is used to bring up authentication dialogs