A critical local privilege escalation vulnerability chain tracked as CVE-20265140 has exposed serious security weaknesses in Pardus Linux. Researchers revealed that the flaws allow any unprivileged local user to gain full root access without authentication, potentially leading to complete system compromise within seconds.
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