CVE-2021-3560
Red Hat Polkit Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability
IN CISA KEV
Red Hat Polkit contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability through the bypassing of credential checks for D-Bus requests, allowing for privilege escalation.
- Vendor
- Red Hat
- Product
- Polkit
- CVSS
- No score recorded (no NVD record loaded for this entry)
- CWE
- CWE-863
- Published
- Not recorded
- NVD modified
- Not recorded
CISA KEV
- Date added
- 2023-05-12
- Due date
- 2023-06-02
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
EPSS
23.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (percentile 97th)
FIRST EPSS, updated 17 Oct 2026. About EPSS
CVSS is severity, EPSS is likelihood, KEV means already exploited. EPSS is a statistical probability, not a certainty: a low score does not make a bug safe, and a high one does not prove it is being exploited.
Data last updated 18 Oct 2026. Sources: NVD API 2.0, CISA KEV catalog, FIRST EPSS. Links: NVD, CISA KEV. Metadata only. ThreatWire does not host exploit code.