Local Privilege Escalation

All Linux Distributions Affected by 12 Year-Old PwnKit Local Privilege Escalation Bug Allowing an Attacker to Execute Commands as Root

February 4, 2022

Qualys researchers said the 12-year-old memory corruption local privilege escalation vulnerability on polkit's Set User ID program pkexec is easily exploitable by novice attackers and affects every major Linux distribution.

Local Privilege Escalation

All Linux Distributions Affected by 12 Year-Old PwnKit Local Privilege Escalation Bug Allowing an Attacker to Execute Commands as Root

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