CISA warns of Fragnesia Linux flaw chained in PHP2Shell attacks
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned federal agencies to patch a high-severity Linux kernel privilege escalation bug that attackers are chaining with the PHP2Shell flaws in the wild. [...]
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- TechnologyLinux kernelThe core of Linux and Android: it controls hardware, memory and what every program is allowed to do.
- AttackPrivilege escalationGoing from limited access to more powerful access, such as from a normal user to administrator.
- ConceptCISA · Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security AgencyThe US government's cybersecurity agency, which issues alerts and runs the KEV catalog.