Researchers discovered two local privilege escalation flaws that could let attackers gain root access on systems running major Linux distributions. Qualys researchers discovered two local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities, an attacker can exploit them to gain root privileges on machines running major Linux distributions. The two vulnerabilities are: The first flaw (CVE-2025-6018) allows an unprivileged […]
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