CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-4897

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Mar 26, 2026Sources checked Oct 3, 2026

5.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-4897 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

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CBL-Mariner Releases Release Notes

Vendor-listed releases

0.119-5
123-4

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-4897?

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.