Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-05-03 03:00 PDT
- CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV
The Hacker News • 2026-05-02 23:26 • thehackernews.com
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
https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/cisa-adds-actively-exploited-linux-root.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
