A Vulnerability in Polkit's pkexec Component Could Allow For Local Privilege Escalation

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A vulnerability in Polkit’s pkexec component could allow for local privilege escalation. Polkit (formerly PolicyKit) is a component for controlling system-wide privileges in Unix-like operating systems. It provides an organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. Polkit is installed by default on all major Linux distributions. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in privilege escalation to root privileges.

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