On Friday, cybersecurity researchers from Pen Test Partners publicly disclosed the problem, a privilege escalation vulnerability buried in how the software uses pipes. The vulnerability, tracked as ...

Splunk for Windows has a high-severity flaw that lets local users escalate privileges through misconfigured file permissions. Learn how to fix it. Image generated by Google’s Nano Banana A newly ...

Slovak cybersecurity company ESET says a newly patched zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem has been exploited in attacks since March 2023. The February 2025 Android security ...

The U.S. cybersecurity agency also added a recently disclosed Google Pixel flaw to its list of exploited vulnerabilities. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed ...

Privilege escalation vulnerabilities are security issues that allow users to gain more permissions and a higher level of access to systems or applications than their administrators intended. These ...

Editor’s note: This article, originally published on September 13, 2023, has been updated with new research on a similar vulnerability. The latest version of Kubernetes released last month includes ...

Threat actors have been observed exploiting a privilege escalation vulnerability on the Windows Backup and Restore service. "[...] CVE-2023-21752 is a vulnerability which allows a basic user to ...