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CVE-2021-4034
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Vulnerability Overview
CVE Name
CVE-2021-4034
Severity
7.8
High
CVE Description
A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't...
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Latest Patch info
Patch Name
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
Date
19.04.2022
Script
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Script Type
Remediation script
this is quick prevention for CVE-2021-4034(polkit) by changing the file permission and limiting processed as a root for pkexec executable file and removing the setuid which is responsible in Linux to allow users execute a program with the permissions of the owner or group.
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Affected OS & Apps
ZFS Storage Appliance Kit
by
Oracle
HTTP Server
by
Oracle
Manager Server
by
SUSE
ZFS Storage Appliance Kit
by
Oracle
HTTP Server
by
Oracle
Manager Server
by
SUSE
Enterprise Linux Server Update Services for Sap Solutions
by
Redhat
Enterprise Storage
by
SUSE
Manager Proxy
by
SUSE
Polkit
by
Polkit Project
Starwind Hyperconverged Appliance
by
Starwindsoftware
Starwind Virtual SAN
by
Starwindsoftware
Sinumerik Edge
by
Siemens
Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
by
SUSE
Command Center
by
Starwindsoftware
Enterprise Linux
by
Redhat
Linux Enterprise Server
by
SUSE
Enterprise Linux for IBM Z Systems EUS
by
Redhat
Enterprise Linux EUS
by
Redhat
Enterprise Linux for IBM Z Systems
by
Redhat
Enterprise Linux for Power Little Endian EUS
by
Redhat
Enterprise Linux for Power Little Endian
by
Redhat
Enterprise Linux Server AUS
by
Redhat
Enterprise Linux Server TUS
by
Redhat
Ubuntu Linux
by
Canonical
Enterprise Linux Server Update Services for Sap Solutions
by
Redhat
Enterprise Linux for Power Big Endian
by
Redhat
Enterprise Linux Workstation
by
Redhat
Enterprise Linux Server
by
Redhat
Enterprise Linux Desktop
by
Redhat
Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
by
Redhat
Scalance LPE9403 Firmware
by
Siemens
Enterprise Linux Server EUS
by
Redhat
Linux Enterprise Desktop
by
SUSE
Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension
by
SUSE
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