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Add "PwnKit Vulnerability" - LPE (#489)
* Add "PwnKit Vulnerability" - LPE

The Qualys Research Team has discovered a memory corruption 
vulnerability in polkit’s pkexec, a SUID-root program that 
is installed by default on every major Linux distribution.

* Add Credits to README.MD

* pwnkit: Move to shorter directory name

* pwnkit: Add compiled version

* pwnkit: Copy built binaries instead of compiling

* make it executable

* add credits

Co-authored-by: Marc <foxtrot@malloc.me>
2022-01-29 17:26:56 +00:00

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# PwnKit Vulnerability - Local Privilege Escalation
- Title: PwnKit Vulnerability - Local Privilege Escalation
- Author: TW-D
- Version: 1.0
- Target: Linux
- Category: Execution
- Credits: Qualys Research Team
## Description
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)](https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2022/01/25/pwnkit-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-discovered-in-polkits-pkexec-cve-2021-4034)
## Configuration
From "payload.txt" change the values of the following constant :
```bash
######## INITIALIZATION ########
readonly BB_LABEL="BashBunny"
```