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-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694 Mrtg: mrtg daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via pid file path manipulation

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694

CVE-2026-72694 describes a local privilege escalation in MRTG. When MRTG runs as root and then drops privileges, a low-privileged attacker can exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the PID file path to trick the root process into changing ownership of an arbitrary existing file to the daem...

CVE-2026-72694 Mrtg: mrtg daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via pid file path manipulation

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

EUVD-2026-55977

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

go-git: Worktree operations may follow symlinks

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CopyEscape: Taking Over Docker Hosts with docker cp

Imperva Red Team uncovered CVE-2026-17106 , a container-to-host arbitrary file-write vulnerability in Docker’s docker cp command. Docker later confirmed that the same CVE also affected sbx cp when copying files out of Docker Sandboxes. A malicious container or sandbox could exploit the copy proce...

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A proof of concept exploit for a local privilege escalation vulnerability in QEMU Guest Agent version 11.0.3. The vulnerability exists in the guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys handler, where improper handling of symbolic links allows an unprivileged guest user to redirect root-privileged file...

SUSE SLES15 Security Update : podman (SUSE-SU-2026:3536-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:3536-1 advisory. - CVE-2026-55686: specially crafted image where the WORKDIR path contains a symlink allows for directory creation and ownership...

PT-2026-70551

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows DHCP Server affected versions not specified Description Improper link resolution before file access, also known as link following, allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally on the system. Recommendations At the moment...

PT-2026-70550

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows DHCP Server affected versions not specified Description Improper link resolution before file access, also known as link following, allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally on the system. Recommendations At the moment...

PT-2026-70553

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows DHCP Server affected versions not specified Description Improper link resolution before file access, also known as link following, allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally on the system. Recommendations At the moment...

PT-2026-70085

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MRTG affected versions not specified Description A flaw exists when the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges. A local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability by...

PT-2026-70084

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions openvt affected versions not specified Description The openvt -u functionality is designed to identify the owner of the current Virtual Terminal VT and execute login as that user from a privileged context. A flaw exists in the authenticate use...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72694

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a...

PT-2026-70528

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows DHCP Server affected versions not specified Description Improper link resolution before file access, also known as link following, allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally on the system. Recommendations At the moment...

PT-2026-70518

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows DHCP Server affected versions not specified Description Improper link resolution before file access, also known as link following, allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally on the system. Recommendations At the moment...