Polkit_CVE

Walkthrough summary

Polkit_CVE TryHackMe walkthrough with 4 answered prompts and lab methodology notes.

Sample prompts covered

• Let's try this. We need to send the dbus message, then kill it about halfway through:
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• We need a password hash here, so let's generate a Sha512Crypt hash for our chosen password (Expl01ted):
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• $6$Uo74kYkfXGSHgbCF$wBIJYbiSdtwSpjKTe6eEFT/N3mZszcjHIVXvRQgK6BnXz31sIHmWiV1bGteB/kHoEch.P6zYZ2xylkvYb/l9p1
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• With a hop, su, and a sudo -s, we have root!
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