pwnkit

CVE-2021-4034 Introduction This is an exploit for the CVE-2021-4034 vulnerability, aka pwnkit, which was discovered by Qualys. Usage Compilation $ make or $ gcc -o pwnkit.so -fPIC -shared pwnkit.c -Wl,-e,main Testing $ make test or $ ./pwnkit.so...

ssllabs.rb

ssllabs.rb Ruby gem for Qualys SSL Labs server test. API Notes All API objects described in the SSL Labs API docs are exposed as native ruby objects. Properties are accessed with "underscored" names, i.e. endpoint.hoststarttime will return the hostStartTime field from the API response. All boolea...

CVE-2021-4034

CVE-2021-4034 https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt...

PoC-CVE-2021-4034

PoC-CVE-2021-4034 PoC reference https://github.com/arthepsy/CVE-2021-4034 https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt Usage: gcc PoC.c -o PoC ./PoC...

CVE-2021-4034

CVE-2021-4034 Proof of Concept Qualys researches found a pretty cool local privilege escalation vulnerability in Polkit's pkexec: writeup, tweet. This vuln has been around and exploitable on major Linux distros for quite a long time. Security patches have been published, so I decided to write a...

CVE-2023-38408

Reference / info https://www.qualys.com/2023/07/19/cve-2023-38408/rce-openssh-forwarded-ssh-agent.txt...

CVE-2021-4034

CVE-2021-4034 A simple proof-of-concept for CVE-2021-4034 pkexec local privilege escalation. Based on the excellent summary by our friends at Qualsys. How do? 1. Clone this repository onto a machine with a vulnerable version of pkexec. 2. ./run.sh 3. Shenanigans...

CVE-2021-4034-POC

CVE-2021-4034-POC POC for pwnkit vulnerability discovered by Qualys. Compile & execute: gcc lpe.c -o lpe; ./lpe Creates the following directory/file structure: /tmp ├── GCONVPATH=. │ └── test ├── payload.c ├── payload.so ├── test │ └── gconv-modules References...

CVE-2021-4034

CVE-2021-4034 January 25, 2022 | An00bRektn This is a golang implementation of CVE-2021-4034 based on read as: blatantly stolen from clubby789's implementation of the vulnerability discovered by Qualys. I made a blog post going into further detail about the vulnerability, mainly for myself, but f...

CVE-2021-4034-PoC

CVE-2021-4034 CVE-2021-4034 PoC Resources Qualys Security Advisory...

CVE-2021-3156

CVE-2021-3156 Root shell PoC for CVE-2021-3156 no bruteforce For educational purposes etc. Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 against sudo 1.8.31 All research credit: Qualys Research Team Check out the details on their blog. You can check your version of sudo is vulnerable with: $ sudoedit -s Y. If it asks f...

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