https://hackingpassion.com/tags/cve-2026-31431/Recent content in Cve-2026-31431 on HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]HugoenThu, 30 Apr 2026 13:13:08 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/copy-fail-linux-kernel-cve-2026-31431/Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:13:08 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/copy-fail-linux-kernel-cve-2026-31431/<p>Since 2017, every major Linux distribution has been shipping a flaw that hands root access to any local user. The exploit is a <strong>732-byte Python script</strong> that uses only what comes built into Python by default. It works on <strong>Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, and SUSE</strong> without a single modification, leaves nothing on disk, and bypasses almost every file integrity monitoring tool in existence, because the file it corrupts is never actually written to.</p>