A 12-year-old security vulnerability has been disclosed in a system utility called Polkit that grants attackers root privileges on Linux systems. A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has emerged in the wild hours after technical details of the bug became public. The vulnerability affects a component in Polkit called pkexec, a program that’s installed by default on every major Linux distribution such as Ubunti, Debian, Fedora, and CentOS. Polkit is a toolkit for controlling system-wide privileges in Unix-like operating systems.”]
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2022/01/12-year-old-polkit-flaw-lets.html