CVE-2008-1658: Freedesktop Policykit

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in the grant helper (polkit-grant-helper.c) in PolicyKit 0.7 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in a password.

Affected products

• Freedesktop Policykit: up to and including 0.7; version 0.6 only

Published 2008-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.