CVE-2026-4897

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-03-26. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
5.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in polkit. A local user can exploit this by providing a specially crafted, excessively long input to the polkit-agent-helper-1 setuid binary via standard input (stdin). This unbounded input can lead to an out-of-memory (OOM) condition, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the system.

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
25
EG Risk 25/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity55% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.1% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
4th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS. FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

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

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

March 26, 2026

Last Modified

September 10, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 6, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red Hat

2451739 – (CVE-2026-4897) CVE-2026-4897 polkit: Polkit: Denial of Service via unbounded input processing through standard input

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2451739
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-4897 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4897

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntupolkitd (0.105-33ubuntu0.1) @ jammy2026-10-22ubuntu
redhatpolkit-0:125-4.el10_2.12026-08-26redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
policykit-10.105-31, 0.105-31+deb11u1
  • every version up to 0.105-31+deb11u2: fixed in 0.105-31+deb11u2
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
policykit-1122-3 ... 127-3 (15 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
policykit-1126-2, 127-1, 127-2, 127-3
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
policykit-1126-2, 127-1, 127-2
  • every version up to 127-3: fixed in 127-3
—

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 35× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 223 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 123 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 4th percentile
  2. 2026-10-22 23:03 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-22 23:03 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-22 23:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v4jf-wwp4-588q · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  5. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 3rd percentile
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  21. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 3rd percentile
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  18. 2026-09-10 18:24 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-09-10 18:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v4jf-wwp4-588q · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  20. 2026-09-10 17:30 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-10 17:30 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-09-10 17:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v4jf-wwp4-588q · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  30. 2026-09-01 13:53 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-09-01 13:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v4jf-wwp4-588q · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  32. 2026-09-01 12:24 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-09-01 12:24 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-09-01 12:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v4jf-wwp4-588q · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  37. 2026-08-31 16:43 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-08-31 16:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v4jf-wwp4-588q · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  44. 2026-08-26 17:45 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-08-26 17:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v4jf-wwp4-588q · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  49. 2026-08-21 13:23 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-08-21 13:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v4jf-wwp4-588q · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  52. 2026-08-21 12:50 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-08-21 12:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v4jf-wwp4-588q · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  59. 2026-08-16 10:08 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-08-16 10:08 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-08-16 10:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v4jf-wwp4-588q · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  65. 2026-08-14 06:26 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-08-14 06:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v4jf-wwp4-588q · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  67. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  68. 2026-08-12 20:43 UTCEG score recompute
  69. 2026-08-12 20:43 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-08-12 20:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v4jf-wwp4-588q · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  71. 2026-08-12 13:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
  72. 2026-08-11 08:45 UTCEG score recompute
  73. 2026-08-11 08:45 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-08-11 08:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v4jf-wwp4-588q · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-4897?
CVE-2026-4897 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on March 26, 2026. A flaw was found in polkit. A local user can exploit this by providing a specially crafted, excessively long input to the polkit-agent-helper-1 setuid binary via standard input (stdin). This unbounded input can lead to an out-of-memory (OOM) condition, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the…
When was CVE-2026-4897 made public?
CVE-2026-4897 was made public on March 26, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on March 26, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 10, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-4897 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-4897 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (4th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-4897?
CVE-2026-4897 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-4897?
A fix for CVE-2026-4897 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-4897 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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