KEV · Actively exploited
CVE-2021-3560
CVE-2021-3560 is actively exploited (CISA KEV catalog), rated high by the vendor: 0 tracked apps concerned, none still exposed on their current version.
- Severity (CVSS)
- 7.8
- Exploitation
- Confirmed
- Tracked apps
- 0
- Still exposed
- 0
Base CVSS ; severity is a vendor rating (different scale)
CISA KEV · EPSS predicts 22.2 %
Vendor bulletin scale : NVD CVSS pending
Public exploit : ExploitDB
It was found that polkit could be tricked into bypassing the credential checks for D-Bus requests elevating the privileges of the requestor to the root user. This flaw could be used by an unprivileged local attacker to for example create a new local administrator. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
EPSS
22.19%
predictive model; CISA confirms active exploitation
percentile 97.5%
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
- 2023-05-12
- Remediation deadline
- 2023-06-02
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Ransomware
- Unknown (not documented by CISA)