{"id":10506,"date":"2022-01-26T14:32:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T13:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/polkit-vulnerability-provides-root-privileges-on-linux-systems\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T13:32:40","slug":"polkit-vulnerability-provides-root-privileges-on-linux-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/polkit-vulnerability-provides-root-privileges-on-linux-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Polkit Vulnerability Provides Root Privileges on Linux Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span><span>Qualys security researchers warn of an easily exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability in polkit\u2019s pkexec, a SUID-root program found in all Linux distributions.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/polkit-vulnerability-provides-root-privileges-linux-systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=qbLU504tNvQ:PGR0cxj4EHI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=qbLU504tNvQ:PGR0cxj4EHI:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=qbLU504tNvQ:PGR0cxj4EHI:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=qbLU504tNvQ:PGR0cxj4EHI:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=qbLU504tNvQ:PGR0cxj4EHI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=qbLU504tNvQ:PGR0cxj4EHI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=qbLU504tNvQ:PGR0cxj4EHI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=qbLU504tNvQ:PGR0cxj4EHI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=qbLU504tNvQ:PGR0cxj4EHI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=qbLU504tNvQ:PGR0cxj4EHI:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=qbLU504tNvQ:PGR0cxj4EHI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=qbLU504tNvQ:PGR0cxj4EHI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualys security researchers warn of an easily exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability in polkit\u2019s pkexec, a SUID-root program found in all Linux distributions. read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-industry","category-vulnerabilities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}