#CopyFail (CVE-2026-31431) is a #Linux privilege escalation bug that lets any local user get root using a 732-byte Python script, and it works on basically every major Linux distro shipped since 2017.
https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions
#security #hacking #exploit #cve #linux
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