CVE-2026-72693

openvt -u is intended to identify the owner of the current VT and then execute login as that user from a privileged context. In the documented kbrequest/init usage, the ownership test in authenticateuser relies on stat"/proc//fd/0". stat on /proc//fd/0 follows the symlink to the underlying TTY...

CVE-2026-72693

openvt -u is intended to identify the owner of the current VT and then execute login as that user from a privileged context. In the documented kbrequest/init usage, the ownership test in authenticateuser relies on stat"/proc//fd/0". stat on /proc//fd/0 follows the symlink to the underlying TTY...

EUVD-2026-55978

openvt -u is intended to identify the owner of the current VT and then execute login as that user from a privileged context. In the documented kbrequest/init usage, the ownership test in authenticateuser relies on stat"/proc//fd/0". stat on /proc//fd/0 follows the symlink to the underlying TTY...

CVE-2026-72693

CVE-2026-72693 describes a privilege-escalation path in deployments using openvt -u with kbrequest/init. The root cause is an ownership check in authenticate_user() that uses stat("/proc//fd/0"), which follows the fd to the TTY node and reports the TTY owner instead of the process owner. If the T...

CVE-2026-72693 Kbd: local privilege escalation in openvt via incorrect process owner verification allowing passwordless root login

openvt -u is intended to identify the owner of the current VT and then execute login as that user from a privileged context. In the documented kbrequest/init usage, the ownership test in authenticateuser relies on stat"/proc//fd/0". stat on /proc//fd/0 follows the symlink to the underlying TTY...

CVE-2026-72693 Kbd: local privilege escalation in openvt via incorrect process owner verification allowing passwordless root login

openvt -u is intended to identify the owner of the current VT and then execute login as that user from a privileged context. In the documented kbrequest/init usage, the ownership test in authenticateuser relies on stat"/proc//fd/0". stat on /proc//fd/0 follows the symlink to the underlying TTY...

CVE-2026-72693

openvt -u is intended to identify the owner of the current VT and then execute login as that user from a privileged context. In the documented kbrequest/init usage, the ownership test in authenticateuser relies on stat"/proc//fd/0". stat on /proc//fd/0 follows the symlink to the underlying TTY...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72693

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - openvt -u is intended to identify the owner of the current VT and then execute login as that user from a privileged context. In the documented kbrequest/init...

VisualTrader OpenVT lame Denial of Service

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc VisualTrader OpenVT lame Denial of Service quickbms -n openvtdos.bms "tcp://SERVER:10010" . script for Quickbms http://quickbms.aluigi.org get SERVER fullname set KEY string "3jds894jsnwmtod0295jdhbtr5bv789dsjkerk59fjq2k39fklwo04dm" set MEMORYFIL...