Post #103 177 Jul 3, 2021, 00:00 UTC Privilege escalation with polkitHow to get root on Linux with a seven-year-old bughttps://github.blog/2021-06-10-privilege-escalation-polkit-root-on-linux-with-bug/#pentest The GitHub Blog Privilege escalation with polkit: How to get root on Linux with a seven-year-old bug polkit is a system service installed by default on many Linux distributions. It’s used by systemd, so any Linux distribution that uses systemd also uses polkit.