CVE•Published 2022-02-16•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2021-3560
Vulnerability data via CVEDB (Shodan)
CVSS v3.1
7.8
HIGH
EPSS percentile
98
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 2% of all CVEs
Description
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.
Timeline
Published 2022-02-16
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag280 hosts
vuln:CVE-2021-3560Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Polkit Project Polkit"All exposed Polkit Project Polkit instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Polkit"HTTP body or banner mentions "Polkit" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2021-3560Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2021-3560Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2021-3560Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2021-3560GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2021-3560" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (8)
CVE-2021-35608 repos
cipher387/osint_stuff_tool_collectionHTML
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Mr-xn/Penetration_Testing_POCHTML
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Ostorlab/KEVunknown
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