Outage in Ekco Cloud Edinburgh
Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
Resolved Minor
January 27, 2022 - Started almost 4 years ago
Official incident page
Official incident page
Incident Report
We are currently investigating a Linux vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034). 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 processes. It is also possible to use polkit to execute commands with elevated privileges using the command pkexec followed by the command intended to be executed (with root permission).
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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED
over 3 years ago - at 03/07/2022 05:45PM
This incident has been resolved.
IDENTIFIED
almost 4 years ago - at 01/28/2022 10:03AM
Solution has been identified and we have contacted customers.
If you have not not been contacted and need assistance with this, please contact us via: support@ek.co
INVESTIGATING
almost 4 years ago - at 01/27/2022 10:14AM
We are currently investigating a Linux vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034). 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 processes. It is also possible to use polkit to execute commands with elevated privileges using the command pkexec followed by the command intended to be executed (with root permission).
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