Alpine: multiple polkit packages: security update to 0.120-r1 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409872

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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 handle the calling parameters count correctly
and ends trying to execute environment variables as commands. An attacker can leverage this by crafting
environment variables in such a way it'll induce pkexec to execute arbitrary code. When successfully
executed the attack can cause a local privilege escalation given unprivileged users administrative rights
on the target machine. (CVE-2021-4034)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409872

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 11/3/2022

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.7

Percentile: 99.97

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4034

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2022

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 7/18/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Local Privilege Escalation in polkits pkexec)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-4034

Detections

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