Hacker News with Generative AI: Privilege Escalation

Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation (snyk.io)
With the recent release of Ubuntu 24.04, we at Snyk Security Labs thought it would be interesting to examine the latest version of this Linux distribution to see if we could find any interesting privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
Security, Ubuntu, Linux, Privilege Escalation
189 points by saltypal 8 days ago | 77 comments
CVE-2024-45844: Privilege escalation in F5 BIG-IP (almond.consulting)
The previous articles Post-Exploiting an F5 BIG-IP: root, and now what? and Deep diving into F5 Secure Vault helped us to get a better understanding of the internal F5 mechanisms.
Cybersecurity, F5, Vulnerability, Privilege Escalation, Software
12 points by notmine1337 27 days ago | 0 comments
Local Privilege Escalation via MSI Installer (sec-consult.com)
The MSI installers of SoftMaker Office and FreeOffice (SoftMaker) contained a privilege escalation vulnerability.
Security, Software, Vulnerability, Privilege Escalation
20 points by trustinmenowpls 70 days ago | 6 comments
DEF Con 32 – AMD Sinkclose Universal Ring-2 Privilege Escalation (Not Redacted) [pdf] (defcon.org)
DEF Con, Security, Privilege Escalation, Vulnerabilities, AMD
195 points by ruik 75 days ago | 30 comments
SinkClose flaw impacts AMD EPYC and Ryzen CPUs, helps gain Ring -2 privileges (bleepingcomputer.com)
Security, AMD, CPUs, Privilege Escalation
13 points by transpute 104 days ago | 2 comments