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Exploit Title: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
Date: 01/25/2022
Exploit Author: Qualys Research Team
Tested on: ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
CVE ID: CVE-2021-27928

How to Exploit

Test Environment:

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Step 1:build the exp(From https://github.com/berdav/CVE-2021-4034)

make

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Step 2:run exploit and get a root shell

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Analysis Detail

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

Reference

https://github.com/berdav/CVE-2021-4034

https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt

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