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The Hacker News - Cybersecurity News and Analysis: privilege escalation
Severe Auth Bypass and Priv-Esc Vulnerabilities Disclosed in OpenBSD
December 05, 2019
Mohit Kumar
OpenBSD, an open-source operating system built with security in mind, has been found vulnerable to four new high-severity security vulnera...
Sudo Flaw Lets Linux Users Run Commands As Root Even When They're Restricted
October 14, 2019
Mohit Kumar
Attention Linux Users! A new vulnerability has been discovered in Sudo —one of the most important, powerful, and commonly used utilities ...
Over 40 Drivers Could Let Hackers Install Persistent Backdoor On Windows PCs
August 11, 2019
Swati Khandelwal
If you own a device, or a hardware component, manufactured by ASUS, Toshiba, Intel, NVIDIA, Huawei, or other 15 other vendors listed below, ...
Hacker Discloses Second Zero-Day to Bypass Patch for Windows EoP Flaw
June 07, 2019
Wang Wei
An anonymous security researcher going by the name of SandboxEscaper today publicly shared a second zero-day exploit that can be used to byp...
PoC Exploit For Unpatched Windows 10 Zero-Day Flaw Published Online
May 22, 2019
Mohit Kumar
An anonymous hacker with an online alias "SandboxEscaper" today released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for a new zero-day...
New Apache Web Server Bug Threatens Security of Shared Web Hosts
April 02, 2019
Wang Wei
Mark J Cox, one of the founding members of the Apache Software Foundation and the OpenSSL project, today posted a tweet warning users ab...
Snapd Flaw Lets Attackers Gain Root Access On Linux Systems
February 13, 2019
Mohit Kumar
Ubuntu and some other Linux distributions suffer from a severe privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker or a m...
Latest iOS 12.1.4 Update Patches 2 Zero-Day and FaceTime Bugs
February 08, 2019
Swati Khandelwal
Apple has finally released iOS 12.1.4 software update to patch the terrible Group FaceTime privacy bug that could have allowed an Apple ...
New Systemd Privilege Escalation Flaws Affect Most Linux Distributions
January 10, 2019
Wang Wei
Security researchers have discovered three vulnerabilities in Systemd, a popular init system and service manager for most Linux operating...
Warning! Unprivileged Linux Users With UID > INT_MAX Can Execute Any Command
December 06, 2018
Mohit Kumar
Hold tight, this may blow your mind… A low-privileged user account on most Linux operating systems with UID value anything greater than...
New Privilege Escalation Flaw Affects Most Linux Distributions
October 26, 2018
Mohit Kumar
An Indian security researcher has discovered a highly critical flaw in X.Org Server package that impacts OpenBSD and most Linux distributi...
Google Hacker Discloses New Linux Kernel Vulnerability and PoC Exploit
September 28, 2018
Mohit Kumar
A cybersecurity researcher with Google Project Zero has released the details, and a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a high severity vul...
New Linux Kernel Bug Affects Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian Distributions
September 26, 2018
Mohit Kumar
Security researchers have published the details and proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits of an integer overflow vulnerability in the Linux ker...
Flaw in 4GEE WiFi Modem Could Leave Your Computer Vulnerable
September 21, 2018
Swati Khandelwal
A high-severity vulnerability has been discovered in 4G-based wireless 4GEE Mini modem sold by mobile operator EE that could allow an att...
Hacker Discloses Unpatched Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability (With PoC)
August 28, 2018
Swati Khandelwal
A security researcher has publicly disclosed the details of a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft's Windows op...
Adobe releases important security patches for its 4 popular software
August 14, 2018
Mohit Kumar
Adobe has released August 2018 security patch updates for a total of 11 vulnerabilities in its products, two of which are rated as critica...
15-Year-Old Apple macOS 0-Day Kernel Flaw Disclosed, Allows Root Access
January 02, 2018
Swati Khandelwal
A security researcher on New Year's eve made public the details of an unpatched security vulnerability in Apple's macOS operating...
Yet Another Linux Kernel Privilege-Escalation Bug Discovered
October 16, 2017
Wang Wei
Security researchers have discovered a new privilege-escalation vulnerability in Linux kernel that could allow a local attacker to execut...
2-Year-Old Linux Kernel Issue Resurfaces As High-Risk Flaw
September 28, 2017
Unknown
A bug in Linux kernel that was discovered two years ago, but was not considered a security threat at that time, has now been recognised a...
Critical Flaws Found in Windows NTLM Security Protocol – Patch Now
July 12, 2017
Swati Khandelwal
As part of this month's Patch Tuesday , Microsoft has released security patches for a serious privilege escalation vulnerability whic...
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