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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2021-4115
HistoryFeb 21, 2022 - 10:15 p.m.

Design/Logic Flaw

2022-02-2122:15:00
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9

5.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

43.5%

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