{"id":13279,"date":"2026-05-31T10:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/new-cifswitch-linux-flaw-gives-root-on-multiple-distributions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T10:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:03:59","slug":"new-cifswitch-linux-flaw-gives-root-on-multiple-distributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/new-cifswitch-linux-flaw-gives-root-on-multiple-distributions\/","title":{"rendered":"New CIFSwitch Linux flaw gives root on multiple distributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    New CIFSwitch Linux flaw gives root on multiple distributions<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed &#8216;CIFSwitch&#8217; in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel&#8217;s key request mechanism, and gain root privileges. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/new-cifswitch-linux-flaw-gives-root-on-multiple-distributions\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New CIFSwitch Linux flaw gives root on multiple distributions A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed &#8216;CIFSwitch&#8217; in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel&#8217;s key request mechanism, and gain root privileges. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,406,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-13279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-linux","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}