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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Published : 2022-01-28 20:15
Updated : 2023-11-07 03:40
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_server
- enterprise_linux_server_update_services_for_sap_solutions
- enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian_eus
- enterprise_linux_for_power_big_endian
- enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian
- enterprise_linux_for_scientific_computing
- enterprise_linux_server_aus
- enterprise_linux_server_eus
- enterprise_linux
- enterprise_linux_desktop
- enterprise_linux_workstation
- enterprise_linux_server_tus
- enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems
- enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems_eus
- enterprise_linux_eus
siemens
- scalance_lpe9403
- scalance_lpe9403_firmware
- sinumerik_edge
suse
- linux_enterprise_high_performance_computing
- linux_enterprise_desktop
- enterprise_storage
- linux_enterprise_server
- manager_proxy
- manager_server
- linux_enterprise_workstation_extension
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
polkit_project
- polkit
oracle
- zfs_storage_appliance_kit
- http_server
starwindsoftware
- starwind_hyperconverged_appliance
- starwind_virtual_san
- command_center
