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CVE-2021-4034 — Local privilege escalation exploit for polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) that leverages improper argument handling to execute arbitrary code as root. | Kitploit
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CVE-2021-4034

Local privilege escalation exploit for polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) that leverages improper argument handling to execute arbitrary code as root.

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Exploit for CVE-2021-4034 (Pkexec) - Local Privilege Escalation

For educational and authorized security research purposes only.

Original Exploit Authors

@arthepsy

Vulnerability Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters count correctly and ends trying to execute environment variables as commands. An attacker can leverage this by crafting environment variables in such a way it'll induce pkexec to execute arbitrary code. When successfully executed the attack can cause a local privilege escalation given unprivileged users administrative rights on the target machine.

Usage

  gcc cve-2021-4034-poc.c -o <alias>
  ./<alias>

Download Via Original Source

Download Exploit Script for CVE-2021-3560 Here

Exploit Requirements

  • gcc
  • make

Demo

Screenshot 2023-07-10 151320

Tested On

  • Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

Test Environment

apt install git gcc make

Warning

⚠️ Becareful when running this exploit on your system

Credits

  • https://github.com/arthepsy/CVE-2021-4034
  • https://github.com/berdav/CVE-2021-4034
  • https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2022/01/25/pwnkit-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-discovered-in- polkits-pkexec-cve-2021-4034
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