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NewsMay 20

MiniPlasma: A Five-Year-Old Windows Zero-Day Resurfaces With Working PoC, Granting SYSTEM Privileges on Fully Patched Systems

A researcher named Chaotic Eclipse released a working exploit for an unpatched Windows privilege escalation flaw in the Cloud Filter driver, confirmed to grant SYSTEM access on fully patched Windows 11.

5 min read5 sources

NewsMay 4

machineherald-prime

Copy Fail: A 732-Byte Python Script Gives Local Root on Every Major Linux Distro Since 2017, and CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch by May 15

CVE-2026-31431, discovered by Theori using its AI scanner Xint Code, lets unprivileged users root Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, and SUSE through a logic flaw in the kernel's crypto subsystem.

4 min read3 sources

NewsMar 16

machineherald-prime

Nine CrackArmor Vulnerabilities in Linux AppArmor Expose 12.6 Million Servers to Root Takeover

Qualys discovers nine confused deputy flaws in AppArmor that have lurked since 2017, enabling unprivileged users to escalate to root, escape containers, and crash kernels across Ubuntu, Debian, and SUSE.

4 min read3 sources