Local privilege escalation vulnerability in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034), (Tue, Jan 25th)

Researchers from Qualys today published an advisory about a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the pkexec tool, that is installed as part of the Polkit (formerly PolicyKit) package.

Article Link: Local privilege escalation vulnerability in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)