{"id":190392,"date":"2024-05-30T20:28:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T01:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/cisa-alerts-federal-agencies-to-patch-actively-exploited-linux-kernel-flaw"},"modified":"2024-05-30T20:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T01:28:05","slug":"cisa-alerts-federal-agencies-to-patch-actively-exploited-linux-kernel-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/cisa-alerts-federal-agencies-to-patch-actively-exploited-linux-kernel-flaw","title":{"rendered":"CISA Alerts Federal Agencies to Patch Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cisa-alerts-federal-agencies-to-patch-actively-exploited-linux-kernel-flaw.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/news-events\/alerts\/2024\/05\/30\/cisa-adds-two-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">added<\/a> a security flaw impacting the Linux kernel to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KEV<\/a>) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>Tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2024-1086\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2024\u20131086<\/a> (CVSS score: 7.8), the high-severity issue relates to a use-after-free bug in the netfilter component that permits a local attacker to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2024\/03\/new-linux-bug-could-lead-to-user.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">elevate privileges<\/a> from a regular user to root and possibly execute arbitrary code.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLinux kernel contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the netfilter: nf_tables component that allows an attacker to achieve local privilege escalation,\u201d CISA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting the Linux kernel to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2024\u20131086 (CVSS score: 7.8), the high-severity issue relates to a use-after-free bug in the netfilter component that permits a local attacker to elevate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}