Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation LPE vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user can trigger to obtain root access and gain complete control of a target environment. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8933 CVSS score: 7.8,...

CVE-2026-8933: Local Privilege Escalation in Set-Capabilities snap-confine

The Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU has identified a Local Privilege Escalation LPE vulnerability in snap-confine CVE-2026-8933. This flaw allows an unprivileged local user to gain full root access on default installations of Ubuntu Desktop 24.04, 25.10, and 26.04. The issue stems from a security...

Four OpenClaw Flaws Enable Data Theft, Privilege Escalation, and Persistence

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a set of four security flaws in OpenClaw that could be chained to achieve data theft, privilege escalation, and persistence. The vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed Claw Chain by Cyera, can permit an attacker to establish a foothold, expose sensitive data...

GHSA-7P5M-XRH7-769R SandboxJS has an execution-quota bypass (cross-sandbox currentTicks race) in SandboxJS timers

Summary Assumed repo path is /Users/zwique/Downloads/SandboxJS-0.8.34 no /Users/zwique/Downloads/SandboxJS found. A global tick state currentTicks.current is shared between sandboxes. Timer string handlers are compiled at execution time using that global tick state rather than the scheduling...

AlmaLinux 8 : firefox (ALSA-2022:0130)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2022:0130 advisory. - Mozilla developers Calixte Denizet, Kershaw Chang, Christian Holler, Jason Kratzer, Gabriele Svelto, Tyson Smith, Simon Giesecke, and Steve Fink reporte...