High 1 exploited CVE RHSA-2022:0268 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: polkit security update

Published Sep 13, 2024 · Updated Aug 7, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 7

Release	Package	Fixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 8.1 E4S rhel_e4s:8.1::baseos	polkit	0:0.115-9.el8_1.2
Red Hat · RHEL 8.1 E4S rhel_e4s:8.1::baseos	polkit-debuginfo	0:0.115-9.el8_1.2
Red Hat · RHEL 8.1 E4S rhel_e4s:8.1::baseos	polkit-debugsource	0:0.115-9.el8_1.2
Red Hat · RHEL 8.1 E4S rhel_e4s:8.1::baseos	polkit-devel	0:0.115-9.el8_1.2
Red Hat · RHEL 8.1 E4S rhel_e4s:8.1::baseos	polkit-docs	0:0.115-9.el8_1.2
Red Hat · RHEL 8.1 E4S rhel_e4s:8.1::baseos	polkit-libs	0:0.115-9.el8_1.2
Red Hat · RHEL 8.1 E4S rhel_e4s:8.1::baseos	polkit-libs-debuginfo	0:0.115-9.el8_1.2

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2021-4034 Exploited · Ransomware Public exploit EPSS 95%

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid too…

policykit-1 policykit-1 polkit polkit Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

Jan 28, 2022
KEV Jun 27, 2022

References

article
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
article
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2022-001
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025869
advisory
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2022/rhsa-2022_0268.json
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4034
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4034
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4034
article
https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt
article
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog