Coverage › CVE-2021-3560
CVE-2021-3560 Unmapped
Red Hat Polkit Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Red Hat — Polkit
- Description (CISA)
- Red Hat Polkit contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability through the bypassing of credential checks for D-Bus requests, allowing for privilege escalation.
- Added to KEV
- 2023-05-12
- Due date
- 2023-06-02
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-863
- CISA notes
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961710
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3560 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2021-3560. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-863) — here is why — and does not guess.
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