polkit on CentOS 7 and CVE-2021-3560

Volodymyr Petrov

• June 04, 2021 07:00

hello, Current polkitd on CentOS 7 have serious vulnerability. Please see CVE-2021-3560. In default CPanel installation pokitd running by default. Is it necessary for CPanel/WHM working? What happened if I disable this polkitd?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • June 04, 2021 13:53

  Hey there! While this does run on CentOS 7 machines, it's not related to the functions of cPanel at all but to the OS itself. You can find an overview of what that tool does here:

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • June 04, 2021 13:56

  I actually checked the CVE page and it looks like only version 8 of the operating system would be affected:

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