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#8 The Hacker News general May 19, 2026 at 14:56 UTC

DirtyDecrypt PoC Released for Linux Kernel CVE-2026-31635 LPE Vulnerability

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

A proof-of-concept exploit dubbed DirtyDecrypt (also called DirtyCBC) has been released for CVE-2026-31635, a Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability discovered by the Zellic and V12 security team on May 9, 2026, and patched in April. The PoC enables local attackers to escalate privileges to root, and its public availability significantly raises exploitation risk for unpatched Linux systems. Administrators running affected kernel versions should prioritize applying the patch given the now-public exploit code.

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