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High 1 exploited CVE RHSA-2021:2238 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: polkit security update

Published Sep 16, 2024 · Updated Nov 22, 2025

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos polkit 0:0.115-11.el8_4.1
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos polkit-debuginfo 0:0.115-11.el8_4.1
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos polkit-debugsource 0:0.115-11.el8_4.1
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos polkit-devel 0:0.115-11.el8_4.1
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos polkit-docs 0:0.115-11.el8_4.1
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos polkit-libs 0:0.115-11.el8_4.1
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos polkit-libs-debuginfo 0:0.115-11.el8_4.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961710
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2021/rhsa-2021_2238.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3560
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3560
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3560
  • article
    https://github.blog/2021-06-10-privilege-escalation-polkit-root-on-linux-with-bug/
  • article
    https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog