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Linux Security: news, advisories and analysis

4 articlesUpdated 24 Sep 2026

CyberSecureToday covers Linux Security across 4 articles published between 8 Sep 2026 and 24 Sep 2026. The coverage includes 4 vulnerability advisories. 4 advisories are rated critical or high severity, and 2 involve flaws listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Stories on Linux Security most often intersect with Privilege Escalation, Red Hat and RHEL, with Technology, Cloud & SaaS the most affected sector. The most recent story, “Google Cloud OS Login Privilege Escalation Flaw Exposes Compute Engine Instances to Root Takeover CVE-2020-8907”, was published 24 Sep 2026. Every article is listed below, newest first, with the affected products, severity and remediation guidance in each piece.

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ThreatsCloud & SaaSHigh
Google Cloud OS Login Privilege Escalation Flaw Exposes Compute Engine Instances to Root Takeover CVE-2020-8907
Google Cloud resolves a privilege escalation flaw in Compute Engine guest-oslogin that allowed users with compute.osLogin IAM permissions to gain root access.
Aisha Noor24 Sep 202617 min read
ThreatsCloud & SaaSHigh
Red Hat ABRT Crash Reporting Daemon Flaw CVE-2015-5287 Weaponized for Linux Root Privilege Escalation
CISA adds Red Hat ABRT vulnerability CVE-2015-5287 (CVSS 7.8) to KEV catalog following active exploitation against enterprise Linux host infrastructure.
Priya Raman17 Sep 202612 min read
ThreatsCloud & SaaSHigh
Red Hat Enterprise Linux libuser Race Condition Flaw Exploited for Local Root Escalation
CISA adds Red Hat libuser vulnerability CVE-2015-3246 (CVSS 8.8) to KEV catalog following active in-the-wild exploitation for root privilege escalation.
Tom Verhoeven17 Sep 202612 min read
ThreatsCloud & SaaSCritical
FreeIPA LDAP ACI Vulnerability Chain Grants Anonymous Clients Domain Admin Rights
Red Hat patched CVE-2026-76578 (CVSS 9.8) in FreeIPA and 389 Directory Server, where an LDAP Access Control Instruction flaw allowed unauthenticated clients to create permanent domain admins.
Tom Verhoeven8 Sep 20265 min read

Latest coverage

Google Cloud OS Login Privilege Escalation Flaw Exposes Compute Engine Instances to Root Takeover CVE-2020-8907

Red Hat ABRT Crash Reporting Daemon Flaw CVE-2015-5287 Weaponized for Linux Root Privilege Escalation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux libuser Race Condition Flaw Exploited for Local Root Escalation

FreeIPA LDAP ACI Vulnerability Chain Grants Anonymous Clients Domain Admin Rights