{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2022-02-14T13:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "polkit: file descriptor leak allows an unprivileged user to cause a crash",
    "id" : "2007534",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2007534"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.2",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-403",
  "details" : [ "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", "There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. \nThe 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." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Kevin Backhouse for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2022-04-26T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:1546",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "polkit-0:0.115-13.el8_5.2"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "polkit",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "polkit",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "polkit",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4115\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4115" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2021-4115",
  "csaw" : false
}