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Potential Privilege Escalation via PKEXEC

Identifies an attempt to exploit a local privilege escalation in polkit pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) via unsecure environment variable injection. Successful exploitation allows an unprivileged user to escalate to the root user.

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Detection Logic

file where host.os.type == "linux" and file.path : "/*GCONV_PATH*"

Field Validations

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