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Polkit vulnerability provides local privilege escalation bypass

Many of the Linux distros are vulnerable to the Polkit exploit. This vulnerability provides a local privilege escalation bypass. A hacker can easily obtain root access with this vulnerability. The vulnerability was recently discovered by GitHub Security Lab security researcher Kevin Backhouse. The vulnerability CVE-2021-3560 was publicly disclosed, and a fix was released on June 3, 2021. Make sure […]