A serious bug in #Linux from 12 years ago allows you to get root on any distro
To fix it upgrade or:
chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec
#PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation #Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s 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
To fix it upgrade or:
chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec
#PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation #Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s 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
Qualys Security Blog
PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) | Qualys Security Blog
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.