12-Year-Old Polkit Flaw Lets Unprivileged Linux Users Gain Root Access

A 12-year-old security vulnerability has been disclosed in a system utility called Polkit that grants attackers root privileges on Linux systems, even as a proof-of-concept PoC exploit has emerged in the wild merely hours after technical details of the bug became public. Dubbed "PwnKit" by...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Polkit_Project Polkit

CVE-2021-4034 PoC for PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulne...