All, There has been an important security issue found by Qualys [1]. It has been assigned the number CVE-2021-4034. The flaw poses an easy local privilege escalation threat.
All major distros should contain the patch right now. If not, please download the following patch [2] ASAP! Please, update your polkit package. Thank you. the Polkit team [1] https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt [2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/commit/a2bf5c9c83b6ae46cbd5c779d3055bff81ded683