CVE-2026-102568
MEDIUMCVSS 5.5Description
Pardus Parental Control before 0.7.0 contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability in the polkit policy that allows unprivileged local users to disable parental controls as root. Attackers can invoke PPCActivator.py with the --disable argument via pkexec to remove all restrictions including DNS filtering and application limits without authentication.
Timeline
Published:September 29th, 2026 3:17 PM
Last modified:September 30th, 2026 5:32 PM
CVSS Scoring
CVSS v3: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
References & Reports
Advisories, patches, and third-party reports
- https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control
- https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/blob/4045f9513fa2d19ad9dbee25b39acb55a018c58e/polkit/tr.org.pardus.pkexec.parental-control.policy#L9-L21
- https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/commit/42d8373b6b8d9bf348e9378fb6ad4a2750d503e7
- https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/pull/5
- https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/releases/tag/debian%2F0.7.0
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pardus-parental-control-before-0.7.0-incorrect-authorization-via-ppcactivator-py
- https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/pull/5
Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute