Exploiting a race condition in Microsoft Defender, the exploit leads to local privilege escalation to SYSTEM. A security researcher has released another zero-day exploit targeting Microsoft’s Windows ...

Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code has been released for the CIFSwitch flaw, which allows low-privileged users to escalate to root on vulnerable Linux systems. A vulnerability that lurked in the ...

Linux Exploit Suggester; based on operating system release number. This program run without arguments will perform a 'uname -r' to grab the Linux Operating Systems release version, and return a ...

A recently patched Linux privilege escalation vulnerability now has a publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that allows local attackers to gain root privileges on Arch Linux systems. The ...

A recently patched local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel's rxgk module now has a proof-of-concept exploit that allows attackers to gain root access on some Linux systems. Named ...

For the second time in two weeks, a significant privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Linux. The vulnerability known as "Dirty Frag" enables escalation from an unprivileged user to ...

Back-to-back kernel vulnerabilities in Linux has defenders scrambling to apply defenses in the age of quick turnaround time for hackers to exploit nascent flaws. See Also: Beat the Breach: Outsmart ...

Two Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerabilities have been publicly disclosed within a week of each other. Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431), disclosed on 29 April 2026 by security firm Theori, ...

Microsoft Defender is investigating a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) affecting multiple major Linux distributions including Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and AWS ...

With one compromised account, Dirty Frag can expose your system. No patch can protect you from all possible attacks yet. To stay safe, you'll need to block several services, including VPNs. Linux has ...

A public exploit is available for a nine-year old vulnerability that affects the Linux kernel, paving the way for root privilege escalation. The flaw, which actually is two vulnerabilities chained ...

The actively exploited flaw builds on Dirty Pipe and Copy Fail techniques to overwrite page cache and gain full system control. A newly disclosed Linux privilege escalation issue dubbed “Dirty Frag” ...