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Zapscape Is The Latest Linux Vulnerability For KVM Guest-To-Host Escape, LPE

Michael Larabel
Aug 7, 2026 at 00:29
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Made public earlier today is Zapscape as a guest-to-host escape vulnerability affecting the Linux KVM x86 code for the past six years. This 2020 kernel change to KVM x86 can also be used as a local privilege escalation (LPE) exploit too where /dev/kvm is world-writable on some Linux distributions like RHEL...

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