Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : PolicyKit vulnerability (USN-5252-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5252-1 advisory. It was discovered that the PolicyKit pkexec tool incorrectly handled command-line arguments. A local attacker could use this issue to escalate...

Slackware Linux 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current polkit Vulnerability (SSA:2022-025-02)

The version of polkit installed on the remote host is prior to 0.105 / 0.113 / 0.120. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SSA:2022-025-02 advisory. - A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid...

Polkit pkexec Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec CVE-2021-4034 ======================================================================== Contents ======================================================================== Summary Analysis Exploitation Acknowledgments Timeline...

Polkit pkexec Local Privilege Escalation Exploit

/ Proof of Concept for PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s pkexec CVE-2021-4034 by Andris Raugulis Advisory:...

polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters coun...

polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters coun...

USN-5252-2 policykit-1 vulnerability

USN-5252-1 fixed a vulnerability in policykit-1. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the PolicyKit pkexec tool incorrectly handled command-line arguments. A local attacker could use this issue t...

polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters coun...

polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters coun...

polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters coun...

polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters coun...

polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters coun...

OPENSUSE-SU-2022:0190-1 Security update for polkit

This update for polkit fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-4034: Fixed a local privilege escalation in pkexec bsc1194568...

polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters coun...

polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters coun...

USN-5252-1: PolicyKit vulnerability

It was discovered that the PolicyKit pkexec tool incorrectly handled command-line arguments. A local attacker could use this issue to escalate privileges to an administrator...

USN-5252-1 policykit-1 vulnerability

It was discovered that the PolicyKit pkexec tool incorrectly handled command-line arguments. A local attacker could use this issue to escalate privileges to an administrator...

CVE-2021-4034

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters coun...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-4034

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters coun...

Local Privilege Escalation in polkits pkexec

A bug exists in the polkit pkexec binary in how it processes arguments. If the binary is provided with no arguments, it will continue to process environment variables as argument variables, but without any security checking. By using the execve call we can specify a null argument list and populat...