PwnKit Vulnerability - Local Privilege Escalation - Compiled

  • Title: PwnKit Vulnerability - Local Privilege Escalation
  • Author: TW-D
  • Version: 1.0
  • Target: Linux
  • Category: Execution
  • Credits: Qualys Research Team

Description

This is a version of the PwnKit Vulnerability Local Privilege Escalation containing pre-compiled binaries for x86_64 Linux. If you don't want to use the pre-compiled binaries or you are targetting a different architecture, please find the PwnKit-LPE directory.

The Qualys Research Team has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in polkits pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major Linux distribution. This easily exploited vulnerability allows any unprivileged user to gain full root privileges on a vulnerable host by exploiting this vulnerability in its default configuration.

PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkits pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)

Configuration

From "payload.txt" change the values of the following constant :


######## INITIALIZATION ########

readonly BB_LABEL="BashBunny"