CVE-2021-4034
CVE-2021-4034: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec proof of concept (by mebeim)
PwnKit
Self-contained exploit for CVE-2021-4034 - Pkexec Local Privilege Escalation (by ly4k)
| CVE-2021-4034 | PwnKit | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | |
| 24 | 967 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 1.8 | |
| over 2 years ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| C | C | |
| The Unlicense | MIT License |
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CVE-2021-4034
Posts with mentions or reviews of CVE-2021-4034.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-26.
PwnKit
Posts with mentions or reviews of PwnKit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-28.
- Dear maintainers, please can we have a patched version of pkexec ASAP. Thanks
- pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) - local privilege escalation on all versions on Linux
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pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
Exploit code is now publicly available - https://github.com/ly4k/PwnKit/blob/main/PwnKit.c
- Self-contained exploit for CVE-2021-4034 (Pkexec 1-day LPE)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing CVE-2021-4034 and PwnKit you can also consider the following projects:
CVE-2021-4034 - PoC for PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
pwnkit-exploit - CVE-2021-4034 POC exploit
polkit-dumb-agent - a polkit agent in 145 lines of code, because polkit is dumb and none of the other agents worked
pocorgtfo - a "Proof of Concept or GTFO" mirror with an extensive index with also whole issues or individual articles as clean PDFs.