PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash) and…

Description

PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245684 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2016:0189 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 77356 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2015:1927 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• [polkit-devel] 20150702 polkit-0.113 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2015:1734 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 1035023 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2015-3256](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2015-3256.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2015-3256)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 05:39 UTC.