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.

Metrics

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High

Vulnerable System Availability Impact None

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Pardus
  • Pardus-parental-control

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References
Link Providers
https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/blob/4045f9513fa2d19ad9dbee25b39acb55a018c58e/polkit/tr.org.pardus.pkexec.parental-control.policy#L9-L21 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/commit/42d8373b6b8d9bf348e9378fb6ad4a2750d503e7 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/pull/5 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/releases/tag/debian%2F0.7.0 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pardus-parental-control-before-0.7.0-incorrect-authorization-via-ppcactivator-py cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Pardus
Pardus pardus-parental-control
Vendors & Products Pardus
Pardus pardus-parental-control

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Pardus Parental Control before 0.7.0 Incorrect Authorization via PPCActivator.py
Weaknesses CWE-863
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.8, 'vector': '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'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published: 2026-09-29T14:22:37.362Z

Updated: 2026-09-29T17:31:21.841Z

Reserved: 2026-09-29T13:43:15.321Z

Link: CVE-2026-102568

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-29T17:30:57.925Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-29T15:17:18.443

Modified: 2026-09-30T17:32:07.107

Link: CVE-2026-102568

cve-icon Redhat

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