Privilege Escalation
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Four Linux Root Exploits Published, for Bugs Up to 21 Years Old
Mistakes a decade or more old, in networking code read by thousands of people, found in months by a researcher...
PR
19 Sep
A Plesk Backup Restore Lets a Hosting Customer Get Root on the Whole Server
CVE-2026-68488 needs only a customer's own panel login and FTP access. On shared hosting, that turns one accou...
KE
15 Sep
A cPanel Account With Mail Privileges Can Reach Root. On Shared Hosting You Can Buy One.
CVE-2026-67401 is SQL injection in EmailTrack, disclosed 8 September with no reported exploitation. It is the...
KE
9 Sep
Linux 'pedit COW' (CVE-2026-46331) Hands Local Users Root via Page-Cache Corruption — Patch and Reboot
CVE-2026-46331, nicknamed pedit COW, is a Linux kernel local privilege-escalation flaw in the traffic-control...
CY
30 Jun
LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Zero-Day CVE-2026-48172: Maximum-Severity Root Escalation Under Active Exploitation
CVE-2026-48172 in the LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin carries a CVSS v4.0 score of 10.0 and was added to CISA...
CY
2 Jun
CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Linux Kernel "Copy Fail" Zero-Day Within Two Weeks
A 732-byte Python script is all an unprivileged local user needs to take root on Ubuntu 24.04, RHEL 10.1, SUSE...
CY
18 May
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