Does not work on Redhat 7.

[hackdefendr]

Tested on a vanilla VM and a configured image, both running Redhat 7.
Authentication fails for both, so the exploit does not work.

Note: Any claims that CrowdStrike allows this exploit are 100% false.

[Arinerron]

Can you send the output of uname -a and head -n1 /etc/passwd after running the exploit please?

[hackdefendr]

I'm thinking that because RHEL 7 still runs a v3 Kernel is why this is not working.

$ ./exploit

Backing up /etc/passwd to /tmp/passwd.bak ...
Setting root password to "aaron"...
Password: su: Authentication failure

$ uname -a
Linux 3.10.0-1160.53.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 16 10:19:28 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ head -n1 /etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

[rewks]

Yes, your kernel version is not vulnerable. The vulnerability affects kernel releases from 5.8 onwards.