CVE-2021-3560-PolkitPrivilegeEsclation

CVE-2021-3560-Polkit-Privilege-Esclation PoC Original research by Kevin Backhouse This is just a Bash PoC script, that automates the exploitation steps mentioned in Kevin Backhouse's blog. Read his post on this vulnerability:...

CVE-2021-3560

CVE-2021-3560 a reliable C based exploit for CVE-2021-3560. Summary: Yestreday i stumbled upon this blog post by Kevin Backhouse discovered this vulnerability, i tried the bash commands provided in the blogpost and to my surpise it worked on my Kali Linux box! CVE-2021-3560 is an authentication...

polkit-auto-exploit

polkit-auto-exploit Automatic Explotation PoC for Polkit CVE-2021-3560 Summary CVE-2021-3560 is an authentication bypass on polkit, which allows unprivileged user to call privileged methods using DBus, in this exploit we will call 2 privileged methods provided by accountsservice CreateUser and...

CVE-2020-16125-Reproduction

CVE-2020-16125-Reproduction This repository is aimed at reproducing the attack . Description : Its original name is “Ubuntu gdm3 privilege escalation” , and it is found by a Github security researcher named Kevin Backhouse . Its CVSS score is 4.6/10 medium and the affected environment is Ubuntu...

CVE-2021-3560-Polkit-Privilege-Escalation

CVE-2021-3560-Polkit-Privilege-Escalation by Mark, Qingchen Yu To build the container with docker build -t . To run the container docker run -it 1. start with start.sh 2. Measura Execution Time: Note the 'real' time and calculate half of it. time dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts...

CVE-2021-3560-Polkit-Privilege-Esclation

CVE-2021-3560-Polkit-Privilege-Esclation PoC Original research by Kevin Backhouse This is just a Bash PoC script, that automates the exploitation steps mentioned in Kevin Backhouse's blog. Read his post on this vulnerability:...

Polkit-exploit

Polkit-exploit - CVE-2021-3560 Privilege escalation with polkit - CVE-2021-3560 Summary CVE-2021-3560 is an authentication bypass on polkit, which allows unprivileged user to call privileged methods using DBus, in this exploit we will call 2 privileged methods provided by accountsservice CreateUs...

SUSE CVE-2026-61897

An Ubuntu-specific patch to AccountsService before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 only partially drops privileges before launching language helper scripts. It changes the effective UID/GID to the target user but leaves the real UID as 0 root. A shell spawned by a helper script inherits ruid=0 and may reset its...

SUSE CVE-2026-61898

The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts save-to-pam-env, update-langlist shipped with accountsservice before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 treat the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in /.pamenvironment as trusted input. The value is interpolated unescaped into a GNU sed replacement expression, allowing an...

CVE-2026-61898

A flaw was found in accountsservice. A local attacker can exploit this by injecting arbitrary shell commands into the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in the /.pamenvironment file. The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts process this input unescaped, leading to arbitrary code execution with roo...

CVE-2026-61897

A flaw was found in AccountsService. An Ubuntu-specific patch for AccountsService did not fully drop root privileges when launching language helper scripts. This oversight allows a local user to exploit the incomplete privilege drop, potentially enabling them to reset their effective user ID to...

CVE-2026-61897

An Ubuntu-specific patch to AccountsService before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 only partially drops privileges before launching language helper scripts. It changes the effective UID/GID to the target user but leaves the real UID as 0 root. A shell spawned by a helper script inherits ruid=0 and may reset its...

CVE-2026-61898

The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts save-to-pam-env, update-langlist shipped with accountsservice before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 treat the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in /.pamenvironment as trusted input. The value is interpolated unescaped into a GNU sed replacement expression, allowing an...

CVE-2026-61898 accountsservice: shell injection via attacker-controlled ~/.pam_environment in Ubuntu language helper scripts

The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts save-to-pam-env, update-langlist shipped with accountsservice before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 treat the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in /.pamenvironment as trusted input. The value is interpolated unescaped into a GNU sed replacement expression, allowing an...

EUVD-2026-63380

The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts save-to-pam-env, update-langlist shipped with accountsservice before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 treat the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in /.pamenvironment as trusted input. The value is interpolated unescaped into a GNU sed replacement expression, allowing an...

CVE-2026-61898 accountsservice: shell injection via attacker-controlled ~/.pam_environment in Ubuntu language helper scripts

The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts save-to-pam-env, update-langlist shipped with accountsservice before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 treat the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in /.pamenvironment as trusted input. The value is interpolated unescaped into a GNU sed replacement expression, allowing an...

CVE-2026-61898

The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts save-to-pam-env, update-langlist shipped with accountsservice before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 treat the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in /.pamenvironment as trusted input. The value is interpolated unescaped into a GNU sed replacement expression, allowing an...

CVE-2026-61898

CVE-2026-61898 is a shell injection in the Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts (save-to-pam-env , update-langlist ) shipped with accountsservice before version 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 . The user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in ~/.pam_environment is interpolated unescaped into a GNU sed replacement expr...

EUVD-2026-63379

An Ubuntu-specific patch to AccountsService before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 only partially drops privileges before launching language helper scripts. It changes the effective UID/GID to the target user but leaves the real UID as 0 root. A shell spawned by a helper script inherits ruid=0 and may reset its...

CVE-2026-61897 accountsservice: incomplete privilege drop when running Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts

An Ubuntu-specific patch to AccountsService before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 only partially drops privileges before launching language helper scripts. It changes the effective UID/GID to the target user but leaves the real UID as 0 root. A shell spawned by a helper script inherits ruid=0 and may reset its...