VYPR

pkexec

by PolicyKit

CVEs (3)

  • CVE-2021-4034KEVJan 28, 2022
    risk 0.22cvss epss 0.88

    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…

  • CVE-2019-13272KEVJul 17, 2019
    risk 0.21cvss epss 0.80

    In the Linux kernel before 5.1.17, ptrace_link in kernel/ptrace.c mishandles the recording of the credentials of a process that wants to create a ptrace relationship, which allows local users to obtain root access by leveraging certain scenarios with a parent-child process…

  • CVE-2010-0750Apr 6, 2010
    risk 0.00cvss epss 0.00

    pkexec.c in pkexec in libpolkit in PolicyKit 0.96 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files via the argument.