Polkit D-Bus Authentication Bypass
Description
A vulnerability exists within the polkit system service that can be leveraged by a local, unprivileged attacker to perform privileged operations. In order to leverage the vulnerability, the attacker invokes a method over D-Bus and kills the client process. This will occasionally cause the operation to complete without being subjected to all of the necessary authentication. The exploit module leverages this to add a new user with a sudo access and a known password. The new account is then leveraged to execute a payload with root privileges.
Author(s)
- Kevin Backhouse
- Spencer McIntyre
- jheysel-r7
Platform
Linux,Unix
Development
Module Options
To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':
msf > use exploit/linux/local/polkit_dbus_auth_bypass
msf exploit(polkit_dbus_auth_bypass) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(polkit_dbus_auth_bypass) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(polkit_dbus_auth_bypass) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(polkit_dbus_auth_bypass) > exploit
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