CIFSwitch, a Linux Root Bug Hidden in Plain Sight for 19 Years
Source: Securityaffairs.Co
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<p>CIFSwitch is a 19-year-old Linux logic bug turning forged CIFS auth keys into root. Affects Mint, CentOS, Rocky, Kali, SLES. CIFSwitch stands apart from typical privilege escalation vulnerabilities because of how it was discovered. Asim Manizada, a security engineer at SpaceX, didn’t find it by a