A flaw was found in glib before version 2.63.6. Due to random charset alias, pkexec can leak content from files owned by privileged users to unprivileged ones under the right condition.
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"sources": [
{
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2021-3800",
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3800",
"modified": "2026-06-17T04:05:47.593Z",
"published": "2022-08-23T16:15:09.980Z",
"imported": "2026-07-17T20:39:24.550Z",
"id": "CVE-2021-3800",
"database_specific": {
"status": "Modified"
}
}
],
"license": "CC-BY-4.0"
}