- Description
- A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters count correctly and ends trying to execute environment variables as commands. An attacker can leverage this by crafting environment variables in such a way it'll induce pkexec to execute arbitrary code. When successfully executed the attack can cause a local privilege escalation given unprivileged users administrative rights on the target machine.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
- Products
- polkit, enterprise_linux_server_update_services_for_sap_solutions, enterprise_linux, enterprise_linux_desktop, enterprise_linux_eus, enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems, enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems_eus, enterprise_linux_for_power_big_endian, enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian, enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian_eus, enterprise_linux_for_scientific_computing, enterprise_linux_server, enterprise_linux_server_aus, enterprise_linux_server_eus, enterprise_linux_server_tus, enterprise_linux_workstation, ubuntu_linux, enterprise_storage, linux_enterprise_high_performance_computing, manager_proxy, manager_server, linux_enterprise_desktop, linux_enterprise_server, linux_enterprise_workstation_extension, http_server, zfs_storage_appliance_kit, sinumerik_edge, scalance_lpe9403_firmware, command_center, starwind_virtual_san
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.2
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Data from CISA
- Vulnerability name
- Red Hat Polkit Out-of-Bounds Read and Write Vulnerability
- Exploit added on
- Jun 27, 2022
- Exploit action due
- Jul 18, 2022
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Top 5 Trending CVEs: 1 - CVE-2025-24200 2 - CVE-2025-32711 3 - CVE-2013-3219 4 - CVE-2021-4034 5 - CVE-2007-6249 #cve #cvetrends #cveshield #cybersecurity https://t.co/4Fua3CAN6W
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Threat Alert: Perfctl malware exploiting exposed Portainer agent and using new SSH persistence CVE-2021-4043 CVE-2023-33246 CVE-2021-4034 Severity: ⚠️ Critical Maturity: 💥 Mainstream Learn more: https://t.co/USc4CE0FKR #CyberSecurity #ThreatIntel #InfoSec (1/3)
@fletch_ai
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