CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV

Published: 1 week ago (May 3, 2026 at 02:26 AM EDT)

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Source: The Hacker News

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting various Linux distributions to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE‑2026‑31431 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a case of local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an…

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