Polkit pkexec Local Privilege Escalation Exploit

This is a Metasploit module for the argument processing bug in the polkit pkexec binary. 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...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Polkit_Project Polkit

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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...