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CopyFail was not disclosed to distro developers?
news
2 min read
CVE-2026-31431 addresses a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Linux, introduced in version 4.14. The issue was linked to commit 72548b093ee38a6d4f2a19e6ef1948ae05c181f7 and has been fixed in subsequent releases.
Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431
research
3 min read
Copy Fail is a logic flaw that allows for local privilege escalation on Linux systems without the need for a race window or kernel-specific offsets. A 732-byte Python script can exploit this flaw to gain root access on every Linux distribution released since 2017, functioning unmodified across multiple systems.