CVE-2021-4034

Polkit pkexec (setuid) contains a local privilege escalation flaw where pkexec fails to validate the calling parameter count and may treat crafted environment variables as commands, enabling unprivileged users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. This has been reported across multiple ...

CVE-2026-31431

CVE-2026-31431 is a local privilege escalation in the Linux kernel’s algif_aead/AF_ALG path. The root cause is an in-place operation bug in the AEAD handling, which can be exercised via AF_ALG sockets with the authencesn algorithm and splice() to corrupt the kernel page cache of readable files wi...

CVE-2025-32463

CVE-2025-32463 affects the sudo utility prior to 1.9.17p1. The vulnerability arises when /etc/nsswitch.conf is sourced from a user-controlled directory via the --chroot option, enabling local users to obtain root access. Connected sources also describe related behavior where a sudoers entry that ...

CVE-2022-27239

CVE-2022-27239 affects cifs-utils up to version 6.14, due to a stack-based buffer overflow when parsing the mount.cifs ip= argument, enabling local attackers to gain root privileges. A patched version is available (e.g., cifs-utils 6.14-2 and later per advisories). Remediation is to update to a f...

CVE-2020-8018

CVE-2020-8018 affects SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: SLES15-SP1-CHOST-BYOS before 1.0.3 and SLES15-SP1-CAP-Deployment-BYOS before 1.0.1, where a /etc directory owned by UID 1000 enables local privilege escalation to root. This is a local vulnerability; exploitation details are not provided ...