EDB-50011

functional

Polkit 0.105-26 0.117-2 - Local Privilege Escalation

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype localauthor J Smithpublished 2021-06-15catalog exploit_db
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IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2021-3560UShigh7.8OT criticalKEV
It was found that polkit could be tricked into bypassing the credential checks for D-Bus requests, elevating the privileges of the requestor to the root user. This flaw could be us…
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