Vigil@nce - systemd: privilege escalation via PAM Module PolicyKit Spoofing
June 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: privileged access/rights.
Provenance: user account.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 09/04/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass restrictions via PAM Module PolicyKit
Spoofing of systemd, in order to escalate his privileges.
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