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

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...

Seagate Central 2014.0410.0026-F - Remote Facebook Access Token

!/usr/bin/python seagatecentralfacebook.py Seagate Central Remote Facebook Access Token Exploit Jeremy Brown jbrown3264/gmail May 2015 -Synopsis- Seagate Central stores linked Facebook account access tokens in /etc/archiveaccounts.ser and this exploit takes advantage of two bugs: 1 Passwordless...