copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431

CVE-2026-31431 — Copy Fail Linux kernel local privilege escalation via AFALG + splice page-cache overwrite For authorized security research, penetration testing, and educational purposes only. Do not use against systems you do not own or have explicit written permission to test. Technical Writeup...

CVE-2026-31431-Analysis-and-Fix

CVE-2026-31431 "Copy Fail" — Technical Deep Dive Severity: CVSS 7.8 High Class: Local Privilege Escalation Introduced: Linux 4.14 2017 Fixed: commit a664bf3d603d 1. Background CVE-2026-31431 is a local privilege escalation flaw in the Linux kernel's algifaead module — the AEAD socket interface of...

copy_fail

Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 CVE-2026-31431 Copy Fail is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel's algifaead module AFALG subsystem. A logic flaw introduced in August 2017 allows any unprivileged local user to write 4 controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file...

CVE-2026-31431-PoC

CVE-2026-31431 PoC Local Privilege Escalation in the Linux Kernel via algifaead Page Cache Write "Copy Fail" Author: Van Glenndon Enad Original Discovery: Theori / Xint Code Research Team Taeyang Lee Published: April 29, 2026 Severity: High CVSS v3.1 Score: 7.8 CVSS v3.1 Vector:...

GhostShell

GhostShell CVE-2026-31431 — Local Privilege Escalation via Linux Kernel Page Cache Corruption GhostShell is a local privilege escalation tool that exploits a flaw in the Linux kernel's authencesn AEAD crypto implementation to obtain a root shell from an unprivileged user account. It corrupts the...

cve_2026_31431_audit

CVE-2026-31431 Audit This project provides a professional Python script designed to check if a system is vulnerable to CVE-2026-31431 and demonstrates how to exploit it for research purposes. 🎬 Full Workflow The diagram below illustrates the complete workflow from Environment Audit SCAN, Patch...

CVE-2026-31431-CopyFail-static-ELF--POC

CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail - 587-byte static ELF I did not find this bug. Credit goes to Xint Code / Theori. This repo is my take on making the exploit as small as possible - a hand-rolled x8664 ELF that does the full LPE in 587 bytes. No libc, no linker, no runtime. Just NASM and stubbornness. In...

CVE-2026-31431-RCE-Exploit

🔴 CVE-2026-31431 — "Copy Fail" A 9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Logic Bug That Grants Root in Seconds Overview Copy Fail is a high-severity local privilege escalation LPE vulnerability in the Linux kernel's cryptographic subsystem algifaead. Discovered and disclosed by Theori via their Xint Code...

Copy-Fail---CVE-2026-31431

CVE-2026-31431 - Copy Fail - Detection Script Python script to check whether a Linux system is vulnerable to the CVE-2026-31431 Copy Fail flaw, a local privilege escalation in the Linux kernel. The flaw in brief Since 2017 commit 72548b093ee3, the kernel's algifaead cryptographic module has handl...

RK35xx-CopyFail-Hotfix

RK35xx Kernel Patch: CVE-2026-31431 "Copy Fail" RK35xx CopyFail Hotfix: CVE-2026-31431 Patch for Joshua Riek's Ubuntu 24.04 A community-provided, pre-compiled kernel patch for all RK35xx single-board computers Rock 5, Orange Pi 5, NanoPC, etc. running Joshua Riek's Ubuntu 24.04 Kernel...

Copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431-Exploit-in-C

Copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431-Exploit-in-C Discovery and original disclosure of CVE-2026-31431: Theori / Xint. Public writeup: https://copy.fail/. Overview This program targets the Linux kernel’s AFALG AEAD path and attempts to trigger the “Copy Fail” page-cache corruption behavior described in public...

copy-fail-cve-2026-31431

Copy Fail - CVE-2026-31431 This repository provides a Go port of the public Copy Fail PoC and a reproducible build pipeline for multi architecture Linux binaries. Copy Fail CVE-2026-31431 is a Linux kernel logic flaw in authencesn that enables a deterministic 4 byte write into page cache data...

CVE-2026-31431

CVE-2026-31431 — Copy Fail 中文版 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution CVE-2026-31431 Copy Fail is a logic bug in the Linux kernel's authencesn cryptographic template. It allows an unprivileged local user to trigger a deterministic, controlled 4-byte write into the page cache of any...

CVE-2026-31431-PocC

CVE-2026-31431-PoC CVE-2026-31431 PoC reproduced in C, usable for exploitation when Python is not available on the target environment. Vulnerability Basic Information Vulnerability type: Linux kernel AFALG subsystem page cache poisoning, achieving local privilege escalation and possible container...

CopyFail-for-dummies

Copy Fail / CVE-2026-31431 — Research Notes Overview This repository contains a cleaned-up technical diagram and supporting notes for the Linux kernel vulnerability commonly referred to as Copy Fail and tracked as CVE-2026-31431. The purpose of this material is: to explain the bug mechanism at a...

CVE-2026-31431-Copy-Fail-add-arm64

Vulnerability Overview Item| Content ---|--- CVE ID| CVE-2026-31431 Vulnerability Name| Copy Fail Vulnerability Type| Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation LPE CVSS 3.1 Score| 7.8 HIGH CWE| CWE-669: Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres Affected Scope| All Linux kernels built between 2017...

copy-fail-go

copy-fail-go Go port of grenkoca's Python PoC for CVE-2026-31431 copy-fail. This version compiles to a fully static binary with zero runtime dependencies - no Python, no pip, no libc version constraints. Drop it on any Linux target and run it. It also automatically enumerates all SUID...

Linux-copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431

CVE-2026-31431 — Copy Fail Linux Privilege Escalation Overview This repository presents a technical overview and demonstration of CVE-2026-31431 , commonly referred to as Copy Fail , a Linux kernel vulnerability that enables local privilege escalation. The vulnerability affects a wide range of...

copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431

Vulnerability Description Root Cause In 2017, the Linux kernel crypto module authencesn introduced an in-place optimization for AEAD Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data operations. This optimization caused read-only pages in the page cache to be incorrectly placed into a writable...

CVE-2026-31431-exploit

CVE-2026-31431 WARNING These Linux LPE exploit implementations are runtime-destructive. They overwrite the live page-cache view of privileged targets such as: su PAM configuration files any file passed into patch mode This is usually not a normal persistent on-disk edit, but it does change runtim...