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 ...

Two vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu implementation of a popular container-based file system allow attackers to execute code with root privileges on 40% of Ubuntu Linux cloud workloads, researchers have ...

A local privilege escalation security vulnerability could allow attackers to gain root access on Ubuntu systems by exploiting a double-free memory corruption bug in GNOME's AccountsService component.

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 vulnerability in the default installations of Ubuntu Desktop allows attackers to gain root privileges on vulnerable systems. This allows malicious actors to fully compromise susceptible systems.

Sometimes the path to root is not a flashy kernel exploit or a broken login prompt. It is a temp directory that gets cleaned up at the wrong moment. A newly disclosed flaw, CVE-2026-3888, affects ...