Linux Copy Fail: ‘A Trivially Exploitable Bug’
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CVE-2026-31431, named Copy Fail, is a local privilege elevation vulnerability in the Linux kernel, revealed by researchers of Xint Code and Theori. A Python script of 732 bytes is enough to get root rights on almost all major distributions published since 2017, including Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE and Amazon Linux. A simple [...] The post Anatomy of Vulnerability: Copy Fail gives root rights on any Linux kernel since 2017 appeared first on IT SOCIAL.
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IT Security News - cybersecurity, infosecurity newsCISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting various Linux distributions to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a case of local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an
Linux Copy Bug: Trivially Exploitable, Impacts Crypto Infrastructure
Security researchers have highlighted a Linux vulnerability nicknamed Copy Fail that could impact a broad swath of open-source distributions released since 2017. The flaw has drawn the attention of U.S. authorities and was added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, signaling heightened risk to federal and enterprise systems, including cryptocurrency exchanges, node operators, an…
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