Outage in Ekco Cloud Edinburgh

Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)

Resolved Minor
January 27, 2022 - Started over 3 years ago
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Outage Details

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).
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED over 3 years ago - at 03/07/2022 05:45PM

This incident has been resolved.

IDENTIFIED over 3 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 over 3 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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