pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)# pkexec-exploit
Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
# Summary
Polkit (formerly PolicyKit) is a component for controlling system-wide
privileges in Unix-like operating systems. It provides an organized way
for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones
# Exploit Code Author
Ahmad Almorabea
@almorabea
# Usage
```
test@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ python3 CVE-2021-4034.py
```
# Credit
Original research done by Qualys https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt
- (blasty and Joe Ammond) for their great work
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