Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2026
Januscape: A 16-year-old Linux KVM flaw lets cloud VM tenants crash hosts and potentially escape guests. It affects Intel and AMD systems. Security researcher Hyunwoo Kim has published details of a use-after-free vulnerability in Linux’s KVM hypervisor that allows code running inside a guest virtual machine to corrupt host kernel memory. The bug, tracked as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2026
Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets local attackers gain root on Linux and Android. The flaw was missed by AI but found by a security researcher. A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability, named Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242), allows a local attacker with no special privileges to gain full root access on affected Linux systems and Android devices. Security updates are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2026
DirtyClone: a Linux kernel privilege escalation that silently rewrites executables in memory, leaving no disk trace. Patch now. JFrog Security Research published a working exploit walkthrough on June 25 for CVE-2026-43503 (CVSS score of 8.8), a Linux kernel privilege escalation they call DirtyClone. It’s the fourth vulnerability in the DirtyFrag family, all sharing the same […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2026
AryStinger hijacks outdated routers via old flaws, turning 4,300+ devices into a stealth network for reconnaissance and intrusion support. On March 12, 2026, QiAnXin’s XLab threat detection system flagged a single IP address, 107.150.106.14, spreading a Linux binary through two vulnerabilities that were disclosed in 2013 and 2016 respectively. The binary had zero detections on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2026
A Linux kernel nf_tables bug lets local users gain root via use-after-free caused by a logic error; patch removes a single “!”. CVE-2026-23111 lives in nf_tables, the Linux kernel’s packet filtering framework. Exodus Intelligence researcher Oliver Sieber found the bug in early 2025 and chained it into a full local privilege escalation. The flaw was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Android and Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Windows Shell and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: The first flaw added to the catalog, tracked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2026
CIFSwitch is a 19-year-old Linux logic bug turning forged CIFS auth keys into root. Affects Mint, CentOS, Rocky, Kali, SLES. CIFSwitch stands apart from typical privilege escalation vulnerabilities because of how it was discovered. Asim Manizada, a security engineer at SpaceX, didn’t find it by auditing source code the old-fashioned way. He built an AI-powered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2026
PinTheft is a Linux LPE flaw in the RDS subsystem with public exploit code. Arch Linux users face the highest risk and should patch immediately. The wave of Linux local privilege escalation vulnerabilities showing up with working exploit code is not slowing down. The latest is PinTheft, discovered by the V12 security team, which affects […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2026
DirtyDecrypt (CVE-2026-31635): working PoC out for a Linux kernel LPE flaw. Missing COW guard in rxgk_decrypt_skb lets local attackers reach root. After Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia, here comes DirtyDecrypt, another local privilege escalation vulnerability in the kernel, this time with a working proof-of-concept already out in the open. The flaw was discovered and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2026
Fragnesia, a new Linux kernel flaw tracked as CVE-2026-46300, could let local attackers gain root access through page cache corruption. Researchers disclosed a new Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability named Fragnesia, tracked as CVE-2026-46300 (CVSS score of 7.8). The flaw affects the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem and could allow local attackers to gain full root access […]
