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A class of security flaws that let a locally authenticated attacker escalate from limited access to root or administrator privileges on a system.
Researcher Asim Manizada published working local-root exploits for four Linux kernel bugs on 18 September 2026. On hosts where containers or exposed services share one kernel, any compromised service can now become a lost node.
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A researcher claims a 100% reliable bypass of the Malware Protection Engine fix for CVE-2026-50656 on Windows 11 25H2 and Server 2025. There is no second patch to apply.
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Chaotic Eclipse published working code that abuses Falcon's Office macro removal on fully patched Windows 11 25H2 and Server 2025. It is the fourth endpoint product the researcher has dropped exploit code for, and no CrowdStrike response is on record.
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JFrog found that an unprivileged account on a Mac running Parallels Desktop 26.4.0 can reach the root dispatcher over a world-writable socket and run code as uid 0 through argument injection in the appliance installer.
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Fixes are in for four Linux local-root bugs found in code more than a decade old. Turning off unprivileged user namespaces closes three of them. The fourth stays open.
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The fixes are already upstream, so the work now is confirming your distribution shipped them before someone with a low-privileged shell on a shared host uses the published code to reach root.
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JFrog says a non-admin account on a Mac can reach root through Parallels Desktop's dispatcher service by planting a double quote in a folder name. The change that stops it is in version 27, and that release needs Apple silicon.
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CVE-2026-12663 covers every ControlFLASH build through V15.07, where any local account on an engineering workstation could stage code that runs with the privileges of the next engineer to open the firmware updater.
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CVE-2026-9633 and CVE-2026-9634 let a standard user on a Windows host plant a DLL where the tool will look for it, then collect Administrator or SYSTEM the next time an admin runs it. Version 10.01.00 fixes both.
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A ThreatLocker explainer restates a boundary developers keep skipping: a pipe connection proves only that the caller could open the pipe. The rest is ACLs, per-command authorization, and code.
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