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CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV

UnknownMay 3, 2026(about 3 hours ago)

CISA added a Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) to its KEV catalog due to active exploitation.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting various Linux distributions to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a case of local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an

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