PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Polkit’s Pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)

The Qualys Research Team has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in polkit’s pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major Linux distribution. This easily exploited vulnerability allows any unprivileged user to gain full root privileges on a vulnerable host by exploiting this vulnerability in its default configuration.

Research:
https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2022/01/25/pwnkit-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-discovered-in-polkits-pkexec-cve-2021-4034

PoC:
https://github.com/arthepsy/CVE-2021-4034

Exploit:
https://github.com/berdav/CVE-2021-4034

#linux #lpe #polkit #cve