CVE-2026-102568

MEDIUMPre-NVD 5.55.5—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-09-29. A secondary CVSS source baseline 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated
5.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: Elevated riskExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Pardus Parental Control before 0.7.0 contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability in the polkit policy that allows unprivileged local users to disable parental controls as root. Attackers can invoke PPCActivator.py with the --disable argument via pkexec to remove all restrictions including DNS filtering and application limits without authentication.

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5MEDIUMhigh confidence
EG Risk
41
EG Risk 41/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity55% × 45%
Exploitation40% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
5th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

September 29, 2026

Last Modified

September 30, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Sep 29, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_pr, github_commit.
generic

Pardus Parental Control before 0.7.0 Incorrect Authorization via PPCActivator.py | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pardus-parental-control-before-0.7.0-incorrect-authorization-via-ppcactivator-py
generic

GitHub - pardus/pardus-parental-control: Parental Control application for Pardus. · GitHub

https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control
generic

pardus-parental-control/polkit/tr.org.pardus.pkexec.parental-control.policy at 4045f9513fa2d19ad9dbee25b39acb55a018c58e · pardus/pardus-parental-control · GitHub

https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/blob/4045f9513fa2d19ad9dbee25b39acb55a018c58e/polkit/tr.org.pardus.pkexec.parental-control.policy#L9-L21
github_commit Patch Available

commit 42d8373b6b8d (pardus/pardus-parental-control)

Patch available: pardus/pardus-parental-control debian/0.7.0 (contains commit 42d8373b6b8d)

https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/commit/42d8373b6b8d9bf348e9378fb6ad4a2750d503e7
github_pr

fix: require admin auth for PPCActivator.py polkit action

Upstream fix in progress (PR #5 · pardus/pardus-parental-control, state=closed)

https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/pull/5

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-102568(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 20× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-04 11:13 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-04 11:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-10-03 12:53 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-03 12:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-02 14:32 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-02 14:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-10-01 16:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-30 17:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-09-30 16:52 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-30 16:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-09-29 18:31 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-09-29 18:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-29 17:54 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-09-29 17:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-29 15:23 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-09-29 14:39 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-29 14:38 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-102568?
CVE-2026-102568 is a medium vulnerability published on September 29, 2026. Pardus Parental Control before 0.7.0 contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability in the polkit policy that allows unprivileged local users to disable parental controls as root. Attackers can invoke PPCActivator.py with the --disable argument via pkexec to remove all restrictions including DNS…
When was CVE-2026-102568 disclosed?
CVE-2026-102568 was first published on September 29, 2026, with the most recent update on September 30, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-102568 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-102568 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (5th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-102568?
CVE-2026-102568 has a CVSS base score of 5.5 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-102568?
A fix for CVE-2026-102568 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-102568 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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