6.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2011-1485

Published: 31/05/2011 Updated: 19/12/2012
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 705
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the effective user ID instead of the real user ID.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #644500 policykit-1 local root exploit CVE-2011-1485 Package: policykit-1; Maintainer for policykit-1 is Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for policykit-1 is src:policykit-1 (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: "Thijs Kinkhorst" <thijs@debianorg> ...
Local users could gain root access by using the pkexec tool in PolicyKit ...
Neel Mehta discovered that a race condition in Policykit, a framework for managing administrative policies and privileges, allowed local users to elevate privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec The oldstable distribution (lenny) does not contain the policykit-1 package For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixe ...

Exploits

/* * Exploit Title: pkexec Race condition (CVE-2011-1485) exploit * Author: xi4oyu * Tested on: rhel 6 * CVE : 2011-1485 * Linux pkexec exploit by xi4oyu , thx dm@0x557org * Have fun~ ¡Á U can reach us @ wwwwooyunorg :) */ #include <stdioh> #include <limitsh> #include <timeh> #include <unistdh> #include &lt ...
/* polkit-pwnagec * * * ============================== * = PolicyKit Pwnage = * = by zx2c4 = * = Sept 2, 2011 = * ============================== * * * Howdy folks, * * This exploits CVE-2011-1485, a race condition in PolicyKit * * davidz25 explains: * * --begin-- * Briefly, the problem ...
## # This module requires Metasploit: http//metasploitcom/download # Current source: githubcom/rapid7/metasploit-framework ## class Metasploit4 < Msf::Exploit::Local Rank = GreatRanking include Msf::Exploit::EXE include Msf::Post::File include Msf::Exploit::Local::Linux def initialize(info = {}) super(update_info(info ...
Linux pkexec and polkitd 096 race condition privilege escalation exploit ...
pkexec race condition privilege escalation exploit ...
A race condition flaw was found in the PolicyKit pkexec utility and polkitd daemon A local user could use this flaw to appear as a privileged user to pkexec, allowing them to execute arbitrary commands as root by running those commands with pkexec Those vulnerable include RHEL6 prior to polkit-096-2el6_01 and Ubuntu libpolkit-backend-1 prior t ...
PolicyKit versions 0101 and below local privilege escalation exploit ...

Github Repositories

CVE-2011-1485 - Published: 2011-04-01 - PolicyKit:

CVE-2011-1485 CVE-2011-1485 - Published: 2011-04-01 - PolicyKit: