Linux Polkit Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034)

Overview On January 26, NSFOCUS CERT detected that the Qualys research team publicly disclosed a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034) found in Polkit's pkexec, also known as PwnKit. The vulnerability is due to the inability of pkexec to properly process the call parameters, thereby executing the environment variable as a command....

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