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Week in review: PolKit vulnerability, fake tax apps pushing malware, EU's bug bounty for open source
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-4034 | Out-of-Bounds Read/Write Local Privilege Escalation in polkit pkexec (PwnKit) | 7.8 | 95% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×4 | KEV |
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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews: PolKit vulnerability can give attackers root on many Linux distros (CVE-2021-4034) A memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034) in PolKit, a component used in major Linux distributions and some Unix-like operating systems, can be easily exploited by local unprivileged users to gain full root privileges.
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