Vulnerability · Published Sep 29, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck
CVE-2026-102568Pardus Parental Control before 0.7.0 Incorrect Authorization via PPCActivator.py
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity incorrect authorization in pardus-parental-control from pardus. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 7% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 93.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| pardus | pardus-parental-control | 0 – before 0.7.0 |
Weakness: CWE-863 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
References
- https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/pull/5 issue-tracking, patch
- https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/commit/42d8373b6b8d9bf348e9378fb6ad4a2750d503e7 patch
- https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/blob/4045f9513fa2d19ad9dbee25b39acb55a018c58e/polkit/tr.org.pardus.pkexec.parental-control.policy#L9-L21 technical-description
- pardus-parental-control debian%2F0.7.0 Release Notes release-notes
- https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control product
- VulnCheck Advisory: Pardus Parental Control before 0.7.0 Incorrect Authorization via PPCActivator.py third-party-advisory