The Qualys Threat Research Unit recently discovered a serious flaw (CVE-2026-3888) in snapd, the background service that ...

Ubuntu developers have fixed a series of vulnerabilities that made it easy for standard users to gain coveted root privileges. “This blog post is about an astonishingly straightforward way to escalate ...

A newly identified local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability has been discovered affecting default installations of ...

A vulnerability in GNOME Display Manager (gdm) could allow a standard user to create accounts with increased privileges, giving a local attacker a path to run code with administrator permissions (root ...

A vulnerability in the interaction between snapd and systemd under Ubuntu allows attackers to gain root access.

A now-fixed Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication. Sudo is a Unix program ...

Ubuntu CVE-2026-3888 flaw exploits cleanup timing in snap-confine to gain root access, risking full system compromise.

Security researchers have recently found “multiple vulnerabilities” on Ubuntu systems, some of which would allow a threat actor to gain root privileges on the target endpoint. In a blog post, Bharat ...

A security weakness in Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 and later versions has raised fresh concerns over the resilience of widely used Linux environments, after researchers confirmed that local attackers can ...