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CVE-2021-4034 — A pwnkit N-Day exploit | Kitploit
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CVE-2021-4034

A pwnkit N-Day exploit

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CVE-2021-4034

This is a PoC for PwnKit Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability that was discovered by Qualys Security Team.

The Qualys Research Team has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in polkit’s pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major Linux distribution.

Proof Of Concept

The following image is used to show the payload in action in a debian based operating system

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Usage

  • There are two POCs provided a self-contained that does not require any dependencies installed in the vulnerable endpoint i.e GCC.

Recommendations

  • The immediate recommendation was to remove the SUID bit of the polkit binary/executable.
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