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Red Hat Polkit Out-of-Bounds Read and Write Vulnerability

High CVSS 7.8 Listed in CISA KEV
CVECVE-2021-4034
First seen2022-06-27 00:00 UTC
Disclosed2022-01-28 20:15 UTC
Last updated2026-09-03 13:45 UTC
Channel statuspending_review

Summary

The Red Hat polkit pkexec utility contains an out-of-bounds read and write vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation with administrative rights.

In-depth triage · Auto channel

No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).

Affected products

  • Red Hat:Polkit
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Sources

  • CISA KEV DATABASE
  • NVD DATABASE

Original Links

Timeline

  1. kev_added CISA KEV
  2. kev_ingest CISA KEV
  3. nvd_ingest NVD