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PwnKit

2025-04-09

CVE-2021-4034 aka PwnKit is a local privilege escalation vulnerability found in polkit’s pkexec utility, a setuid tool that allows unprivileged users to run commands in an elevated context.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2021-4034


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