polkadots

The polkadots tool is a local privilege escalation exploit targeting CVE-2021-3560, allowing the creation of a new privileged user to gain root access on affected Linux distributions such as RHEL 8, Fedora 21, Debian testing, and Ubuntu 20.04. It includes functionality to generate hashed passwords using OpenSSL, enabling users to customize account credentials during the exploit execution. Notable features include customizable account names and password hashes, along with default settings for easy deployment.