5.5

CVE-2021-4115

Exploit

There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being spawned

Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Polkit ProjectPolkit Version0.117
RedhatEnterprise Linux Version8.0
FedoraprojectFedora Version34
FedoraprojectFedora Version35
CanonicalUbuntu Linux Version20.04 SwEditionlts
CanonicalUbuntu Linux Version21.10
DebianDebian Linux Version11.0
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.02% 0.018
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd@nist.gov 2.1 3.9 2.9
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.