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.
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References | () https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025869 - Issue Tracking, Patch | |
References | () https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/commit/a2bf5c9c83b6ae46cbd5c779d3055bff81ded683 - Patch | |
References | () https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html - Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://www.secpod.com/blog/local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-major-linux-distributions-cve-2021-4034/ - Exploit, Third Party Advisory |
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CWE | CWE-125 |
Information
Published : 2022-01-28 20:15
Updated : 2024-11-05 19:38
NVD link : CVE-2021-4034
Mitre link : CVE-2021-4034
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-4034
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Products Affected
redhat
- enterprise_linux_for_scientific_computing
- enterprise_linux_server
- enterprise_linux_desktop
- enterprise_linux_server_tus
- enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian
- enterprise_linux
- enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems
- enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian_eus
- enterprise_linux_server_aus
- enterprise_linux_eus
- enterprise_linux_for_power_big_endian
- enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems_eus
- enterprise_linux_workstation
- enterprise_linux_server_eus
- enterprise_linux_server_update_services_for_sap_solutions
suse
- linux_enterprise_server
- manager_server
- linux_enterprise_desktop
- linux_enterprise_high_performance_computing
- enterprise_storage
- manager_proxy
- linux_enterprise_workstation_extension
siemens
- scalance_lpe9403_firmware
- scalance_lpe9403
- sinumerik_edge
oracle
- http_server
- zfs_storage_appliance_kit
starwindsoftware
- command_center
- starwind_virtual_san
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
polkit_project
- polkit