LPE in polkit (CVE-2021-4034)

This technique is a Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec enabling a user to spawn a root shell. The vulnerability is present in all major distros since May 2009. PoC by @bl4sty - https://haxx.in/files/blasty-vs-pkexec.c

2022-01-26

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Spawn elevated Pneuma via CVE-2021-4034

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Privilege-escalation

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