Privilege-Escalation

vulnerabilities 2026-11-13
Check Point Gaia CVE-2026-123039: DynamicCLI Root Zero-Day Chained With PHP2Shell to Backdoor Gateways and Wipe ESXi
Attackers used PHP2Shell against Check Point Mobile Access portals, then an unauthenticated root socket in Gaia's DynamicCLI daemon (CVE-2026-123039), to backdoor gateways and wipe VMware ESXi hosts. Install the November Jumbo Hotfix and hunt for compromise.
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vulnerabilities 2026-11-12
N-able N-central Under Siege: 4EverAble2Shell and Agent2Shell Bypass Hotfix 2 Days After the Able2Shell Zero-Day Dump
A researcher's Able2Shell dump of 33 alleged N-central zero-days forced N-able to take its hosted RMM cloud offline; new 4EverAble2Shell (root RCE) and Agent2Shell (SYSTEM on managed Windows endpoints) chains reportedly defeat the November 10 Hotfix 2.
zero-day active-exploitation rce privilege-escalation authentication-bypass supply-chain
vulnerabilities 2026-11-03 High
Ivanti Connect Secure CVE-2026-111357 and CVE-2026-118527: The Missing Privilege Escalation Zero-Days in the UTA0576 Root Chain Are Patched
Ivanti has patched the two remaining Connect Secure zero-days that UTA0576 chained with the CVE-2026-104935 auth bypass to reach root; both are in CISA KEV.
ivanti vpn zero-day privilege-escalation network-appliance active-exploitation cisa-kev
vulnerabilities 2026-11-02
Canonical LXD CVE-2026-112816: mTLS Certificate-Chain Flaw Lets Attackers Impersonate Any Trusted Client (CVSS 4.0 10.0)
Canonical patched a CVSS 4.0 10.0 improper certificate validation bug in the LXD HTTPS listener that lets an attacker authenticate as any trusted client via a crafted certificate chain; MicroCloud is affected too.
authentication-bypass linux container-escape cloud privilege-escalation tls
vulnerabilities 2026-10-29
CVE-2026-110720: Consul-k8s Cross-Namespace ACL Binding Bypass Lets Rogue ServiceAccounts Impersonate Consul Components
HashiCorp's HCSEC-2026-50 fixes an incorrect-authorization flaw in consul-k8s component ACL binding rules that lets a ServiceAccount in any namespace authenticate as a Consul component.
kubernetes authorization-bypass privilege-escalation hashicorp service-mesh cloud
vulnerabilities 2026-10-24
CVE-2026-114625: Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator SQL Injection Exploited in the Wild, Third VCO Zero-Day in Four Months
CISA added Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator SQL injection CVE-2026-114625 (CVSS 9.9) to KEV; any authenticated user can escalate to operator-level superuser on on-prem deployments.
zero-day active-exploitation cisa-kev network-appliance privilege-escalation sd-wan
vulnerabilities 2026-10-17
PEERSTITCH: Memory-Only FortiGate Implant Deployed via FortiOS CVE-2025-61624 After FortiManager Breach
Unit 42 details PEERSTITCH, a fileless implant injected into FortiOS miglogd and iked after FortiJump and a CVE-2025-61624 path traversal gave root on FortiGate firewalls.
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vulnerabilities 2026-10-06
DirtyAH6, TUNderflow, PPPoEject, DiagSpill: Four Public Linux Kernel Root Exploits Land in the Networking Stack
Researcher Asim Manizada published working local-root exploits for four Linux kernel networking-stack flaws, three reachable via unprivileged user namespaces, one via SCTP diag with no special privileges.
linux linux-kernel privilege-escalation memory-corruption container-escape ai-vulnerability-research
vulnerabilities 2026-10-06
CVE-2026-72018: AI Agent Turns a 16-Byte Linux Kernel Zero-Write Into Local Root
XBOW's autonomous agent found and weaponized a missing bounds check in the Linux kernel's DIBS loopback driver (SMC-D), escalating a constrained out-of-bounds write to root via cred structure corruption.
linux linux-kernel privilege-escalation ai-vulnerability-research memory-corruption
vulnerabilities 2026-10-04
Zammad CVE-2026-102489 and CVE-2026-102490: Session Hijack to Root Chain Exploited in DIVD Breach
Two Zammad zero-days chain a session hijack into RCE and local root; DIVD says an autonomous AI agent used them to breach its network, CISA added both to KEV, and the root flaw reportedly has no patch.
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vulnerabilities 2026-10-03
Dell Container Storage Modules: Two CVSS 10 Missing-Authentication Flaws Expose Kubernetes Storage Admin Credentials
Dell's DSA-2026-448 fixes two maximum-severity missing-authentication bugs in the CSM Authorization module that let unauthenticated attackers take over storage arrays behind Kubernetes clusters.
kubernetes container authentication-bypass cloud privilege-escalation cloud-storage
vulnerabilities 2026-10-01
TeamViewer Patches Five High-Severity Flaws, Including Remote Session Access Control Bypass to RCE
TeamViewer bulletin TV-2026-1010 fixes five high-severity client and host flaws, led by CVE-2026-92370, a remote-session access control bypass that can lead to code execution. Update to 15.82.
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vulnerabilities 2026-09-29
Branch Target Reuse: New Spectre v2 Variant Leaks Linux Root Password Hash Through the cBPF JIT
VUSec's Branch Target Reuse abuses stale indirect-branch predictions over freed JIT memory to leak a root password hash from Linux in 3-5 minutes; kernel fixes for CVE-2026-64507 and CVE-2026-64508 are merged.
linux linux-kernel spectre side-channel cpu-vulnerability privilege-escalation
vulnerabilities 2026-09-26
CVE-2026-100706: Kyverno Path-Encoding Bug Lets Any Namespace Tenant Reach Cluster Admin
A validation/execution mismatch in Kyverno's apiCall path handling lets a low-privilege namespace tenant use percent-encoded traversal segments to register a cluster-wide mutating webhook and escalate to cluster admin. CVSS 9.9, fixed in 1.19.1.
kubernetes privilege-escalation authentication-bypass container-escape cloud
vulnerabilities 2026-09-26
CISA Adds SharePoint CVE-2026-65660 to KEV: SafeControls Bypass Enables Authenticated RCE
CISA confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-65660, a SharePoint code-injection bug that bypasses the SafeControls allowlist, letting a low-privilege authenticated user register arbitrary .NET classes and run code as the farm service account.
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vulnerabilities 2026-09-25
CVE-2026-71362: Unauthenticated Account Takeover Hits Adobe Commerce and Magento, Now on CISA KEV
CISA added CVE-2026-71362 to KEV after Sansec confirmed active exploitation. A session-identity bug lets an unauthenticated attacker hijack any customer's Adobe Commerce or Magento account — no credentials, no interaction.
cisa-kev active-exploitation authentication-bypass privilege-escalation data-breach
vulnerabilities 2026-09-24
CVE-2026-86708: ManageEngine Shipped a Live GCP Service-Account Key Inside Its Public Installer
CVE-2026-86708 (CVSS 10.0): Zoho's ManageEngine Applications Manager Linux installer shipped a hard-coded, over-privileged Google Cloud service-account key that anyone who downloaded the installer could extract and use to impersonate the account.
cloud privilege-escalation authentication-bypass linux
vulnerabilities 2026-09-23
CVE-2026-80521: Unpatched Ubuntu AF_UNIX Race Lets Containers Escape to Host Root
A public exploit for CVE-2026-80521, a use-after-free race in the Linux kernel's AF_UNIX socket garbage collector, lets an unprivileged process inside a default Docker or Kubernetes container break out to root on the host — and Ubuntu still hasn't shipped the fix.
container-escape kubernetes linux-kernel privilege-escalation cloud
vulnerabilities 2026-09-20
BragJack: One Malicious Extension Hijacks AI Agents Across Five Major Browsers
Researcher Gal Weizman's BragJack proof-of-concept shows how a single malicious extension can hijack the built-in AI agents in Chrome, Edge, Opera Neon, Perplexity Comet, and Claude in Chrome, earning $20K+ in bounties and two CVEs (CVE-2026-0628, CVE-2026-55945).
ai-infrastructure privilege-escalation sandbox-escape browser-extension
vulnerabilities 2026-09-19
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager CVE-2026-28326: Hard-Coded Key Enables Unauthenticated RCE
A hard-coded cryptographic key in SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (CVE-2026-28326, CVSS 8.8) lets an adjacent-network attacker run arbitrary code with no credentials. Patch to ARM 2026.2.1.
rce authentication-bypass active-directory privilege-escalation network-appliance