Medium 5.5Published Sep 29, 2026

CVE-2026-102568Pardus Parental Control before 0.7.0 Incorrect Authorization via PPCActivator.py

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 07:30 UTC)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-863
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: VulnCheck
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Sep 29, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

pardus pardus-parental-control pardus:parental_control (from the name)	before 0.7.0	CNA record

References

https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/pull/5issue-tracking, patch
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
https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-control/releases/tag/debian%2F0.7.0release-notes
https://github.com/pardus/pardus-parental-controlproduct
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pardus-parental-control-before-0.7.0-incorrect-authorization-via-ppcactivator-pythird-party-advisory

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