#pkexec
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #pkexec from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #pkexec
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-28 08:45 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-28 08:45 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #pkexec.
Live pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 08:45 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 6 public posts (spanning ~37357 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (6)
Avg boosts / post: 2.8
Top of the latest posts
While #NixOS should not be affected by #CopyFail as it uses recent kernels, here are additional fixes you can apply: Disabling setuid does not mitigate it, but reduces the attack surfaces overall significantly. Instead of #sudo, #su, #pkexe
Rooted another OSCP machine this morning. There is no other exploit that has been more widespread and easy to leverage than pwnkit (CVE-2021-4034). I've simply lost count of the the number of machines I've been able to use this on to get ro
"we note that #OpenBSD is not exploitable, because its kernel refuses to execve() a program if argc is 0." https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2022/01/25/pwnkit-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-discovered-in-polk
What “pkexec” means
WikipediaPolkit is a component for controlling system-wide privileges in Unix-like operating systems. It provides an organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones, allowing a level of control of centralized system policy. It is developed and maintained by David Zeuthen, a former employee of Red Hat, and hosted by the freedesktop.org project. It is published as free software under the terms of version 2 of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
“Polkit” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#pkexec across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #pkexec straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/pkexec