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...

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 Escalada de privilegios con polkit - CVE-2021-3560 Resumen CVE-2021-3560 es una omisión de autenticación en polkit, que permite a un usuario no privilegiado llamar a métodos privilegiados usando DBus. En este exploit, llamaremos a dos métodos privilegiados...

polkit-auto-exploit

polkit-auto-exploit Automatic Explotation PoC for Polkit CVE-2021-3560 Resumen CVE-2021-3560 es una omisión de autenticación en polkit que permite a un usuario no privilegiado invocar métodos privilegiados mediante DBus. En este exploit se invocarán 2 métodos privilegiados proporcionados por...

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-2020-16125-Reproduction

CVE-2020-16125-Reproducción Este repositorio tiene como objetivo reproducir el ataque. Descripción: Su nombre original es "Ubuntu gdm3 escalada de privilegios" y fue encontrado por un investigador de seguridad de Github llamado Kevin Backhouse. Su puntuación CVSS es 4.6/10 media y el entorno...

CVE-2021-3560-Polkit-Privilege-Escalation

CVE-2021-3560-Polkit-Privilege-Escalation by Mark, Qingchen Yu To build the container with root@kitploit: docker build -t . To run the container root@kitploit: docker run -it 1. start with start.sh 2. Measura Execution Time: Note the 'real' time and calculate half of it. root@kitploit: time...

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-2026-61898

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-2026-61897

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 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

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...

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-2026-61897

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...

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...