privilege-escalation
Safeguard articles tagged "privilege-escalation" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Claw Chain: Four Chained CVEs Turn 245,000 OpenClaw Agents Into Backdoors (May 2026)
Cyera disclosed four chainable flaws in OpenClaw on May 15, 2026 that take an autonomous agent from prompt injection to credential theft, privilege escalation, and a persistent backdoor. Roughly 245,000 instances sit exposed on the internet.
Microsoft Power Pages CVE-2025-24989: Privilege Escalation in Low-Code Platforms
Microsoft patched an actively exploited privilege escalation vulnerability in Power Pages, its low-code web platform. The flaw allowed unauthorized users to gain elevated access within affected sites.
What is Privilege Escalation
Privilege escalation turns a minor foothold into a full breach. Learn the techniques, real-world examples, and how to detect and stop it.
What is Broken Access Control
Broken access control is OWASP's #1 web risk, found in 94% of apps tested. See how IDOR flaws breached First American, USPS, and Parler.
GenAI Coding Agent Privilege Escalation
Autonomous coding agents can escalate privilege in subtle ways that traditional threat models miss. A breakdown of the common escalation paths and how to constrain them.
Running Containers in Rootless Mode: A Practical Security Guide
Root in the container often means root on the host. Rootless mode breaks that assumption. Here is how to run Docker and Podman without root and why it matters more than you think.
Sudo Baron Samedit heap overflow (CVE-2021-3156)
A decade-old sudo heap overflow, CVE-2021-3156 (Baron Samedit), let any local user gain root. Here's what's affected and how to fix it.
Common AWS IAM misconfigurations that lead to breaches
Capital One and Code Spaces both fell to AWS IAM misconfigurations, not novel exploits. Here's how overly permissive policies and privilege escalation paths cause real breaches.
Dirty COW Linux kernel privilege escalation (CVE-2016-5195)
Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) let local attackers hijack a kernel race condition for root. Nine years old, still found in fleets — here's how to find and fix it.
Dirty Pipe Linux kernel arbitrary write (CVE-2022-0847)
Dirty Pipe (CVE-2022-0847) lets local attackers overwrite read-only files via a pipe buffer flaw, enabling fast, reliable root escalation on Linux and Android.
Kubernetes API server privilege escalation via aggregated API (CVE-2018-1002105)
A critical flaw in Kubernetes' aggregated API let unauthenticated users gain full admin privileges. Here's how it worked and how to fix it.
Linux AF_PACKET privilege escalation (CVE-2020-14386)
CVE-2020-14386 lets a local attacker with CAP_NET_RAW corrupt Linux kernel heap memory via AF_PACKET and escalate privileges. Here's the fix and impact.
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