wildpwn

First things first! Read: https://www.exploit-db.com/papers/33930/ Basic usage It goes something like this: usage: wildpwn.py -h --file FILE payload folder Tool to generate unix wildcard attacks positional arguments: payload Payload to use: combined | tar | rsync folder Where to write the payload...

cve-2026-11837-ansible-posix-authorized-key

CVE-2026-11837: ansible.posix authorizedkey local privilege escalation Local privilege escalation in the ansible.posix.authorizedkey Ansible module via symlink-following chown and symlink-following file creation on a user's /.ssh directory and authorizedkeys file. This is a writeup of a...

cockpit-files: cockpit-files: Local attacker can hijack file ownership via symlink race

A flaw was found in cockpit-files. A local unprivileged attacker can exploit a race condition during directory creation with owner assignment. By controlling a writable parent directory, the attacker can replace a newly created directory with a symbolic link symlink before the ownership change...

cockpit-files: cockpit-files: Local attacker can hijack file ownership via symlink race

A flaw was found in cockpit-files. A local unprivileged attacker can exploit a race condition during directory creation with owner assignment. By controlling a writable parent directory, the attacker can replace a newly created directory with a symbolic link symlink before the ownership change...

kernel: smb: client: validate dacloffset before building DACL pointers

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Server Message Block SMB client. A malicious server can exploit this vulnerability on 32-bit systems by providing a crafted dacloffset value. This can cause a pointer wrap, leading to the dereferencing of invalid Discretionary Access Control List DACL fields...

cockpit-files: cockpit-files: Local attacker can hijack file ownership via symlink race

A flaw was found in cockpit-files. A local unprivileged attacker can exploit a race condition during directory creation with owner assignment. By controlling a writable parent directory, the attacker can replace a newly created directory with a symbolic link symlink before the ownership change...

PT-2026-135515

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description An issue exists in the named keyring lookup process where the system fails to keep the storage containing the owner UID alive during the namespace mapping check. The function find keyrin...

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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: mrtg security update

An update for mrtg is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: mrtg security update

An update for mrtg is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: mrtg security update

An update for mrtg is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability...

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...

RHEL 10 : rhc-worker-playbook (RHSA-2026:79112)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:79112 advisory. A worker for yggdrasil that receives Ansible playbooks and executes them against the local host. Security Fixes: ansible-collection-ansible-posix:...

gvfs: gvfs-admin socket ownership race permits local root

A flaw was found in the admin backend of gvfs. The privileged gvfsd-admin daemon changes the ownership of newly created private D-Bus sockets by calling the link-following chown function on a pathname inside a user-controlled directory. A local attacker can exploit this via a Time-of-Check...

gvfs: gvfs-admin socket ownership race permits local root

A flaw was found in the admin backend of gvfs. The privileged gvfsd-admin daemon changes the ownership of newly created private D-Bus sockets by calling the link-following chown function on a pathname inside a user-controlled directory. A local attacker can exploit this via a Time-of-Check...

gvfs: gvfs-admin socket ownership race permits local root

A flaw was found in the admin backend of gvfs. The privileged gvfsd-admin daemon changes the ownership of newly created private D-Bus sockets by calling the link-following chown function on a pathname inside a user-controlled directory. A local attacker can exploit this via a Time-of-Check...

gvfs: gvfs-admin socket ownership race permits local root

A flaw was found in the admin backend of gvfs. The privileged gvfsd-admin daemon changes the ownership of newly created private D-Bus sockets by calling the link-following chown function on a pathname inside a user-controlled directory. A local attacker can exploit this via a Time-of-Check...

Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP Out-of-bounds Write (CVE-2026-46195)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: validate dacloffset before building DACL pointers parsesecdesc, buildsecdesc, and the chown path in idmodetocifsacl all add the server-supplied dacloffset to pntsd before proving a DACL header fits inside the returne...

RHEL 8 : rhc-worker-playbook (RHSA-2026:80508)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:80508 advisory. Python-based worker for Red Hat connect, used to launch Ansible playbooks via Ansible Runner. Security Fixes: ansible-collection-ansible-posix:...