It was found that polkit could be tricked into bypassing the credential checks for D-Bus requests, elevating the privileges of the requestor to the root user. This flaw could be used by an unprivileged local attacker to, for example, create a new local administrator. The highest threat from this issue is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. The `polkit system bus name get creds sync()` function of the dbus-daemon library is associated with insufficient access control, allowing an attacker to elevate their privileges.