Exploit / PoCmedium
12-Year-Old Polkit Flaw Lets Unprivileged Linux Users Gain Root Access
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-3560 | Incorrect Authorization in Red Hat Polkit Allows Local Privilege Escalation | 7.8 | 24% | KEVPoC | KEV |
| CVE-2021-4034 | Out-of-Bounds Read/Write Local Privilege Escalation in polkit pkexec (PwnKit) | 7.8 | 95% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×4 | KEV |
| CVE-2022-0185 | Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Linux Kernel Filesystem Context API | 8.4 | 25% | KEVPoC ×2 | KEV |
From the original article
2 min read at thehackernews.com
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.
By @TheHackersNews · thehackernews.com
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