A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit\'s pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn\'t handle the calling parameters count correctly and ends trying to execute environment variables as commands. An attacker can leverage this by crafting environment variables in such a way it\'ll induce pkexec to execute arbitrary code. When successfully executed the attack can cause a local privilege escalation given unprivileged users administrative rights on the target machine.
Find out more about CVE-2021-4034 from the MITRE-CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
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| Product Name | Status | Defect | Fixed | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | ||||
| Wind River Linux LTS 17 | Fixed |
LIN10-9648 |
10.17.41.26 | -- |
| Wind River Linux 8 | Requires LTSS | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux 9 | Requires LTSS | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux 7 | Requires LTSS | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 21 | Fixed |
LIN1021-2645 |
10.21.20.16 | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 22 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 18 | Fixed |
LIN1018-8774 |
10.18.44.26 | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 19 | Fixed |
LIN1019-7817 |
10.19.45.22 | -- |
| Wind River Linux CD release | Fixed |
LINCD-8031 |
10.22.17.0 | -- |
| Wind River Linux 6 | Requires LTSS | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 23 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| VxWorks | ||||
| VxWorks 7 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| VxWorks 6.9 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition | ||||
| Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
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