CVE-2026-102568
Pardus Parental Control before 0.7.0 Incorrect Authorization via PPCActivator.py
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.8 Medium
- Published
- Sep 29, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 29, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 29, 2026
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 6.8 Medium | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | VulnCheck |
| 3.1 | 5.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N | VulnCheck |
Weaknesses
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
pardus-parental-controlpardus |
|
References
- https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/pull/5issue-trackingpatch
- https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/commit/42d8373b6b8d9bf348e9378fb6ad4a2750d503e7patch
- https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/blob/4045f9513fa2d19ad9dbee25b39acb55a018c58e/polkit/tr.org.pardus.pkexec.parental-control.policy#L9-L21technical-description
- pardus-parental-control debian%2F0.7.0 Release Notesrelease-notes
- https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-controlproduct
- VulnCheck Advisory: Pardus Parental Control before 0.7.0 Incorrect Authorization via PPCActivator.pythird-party-advisory
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