The discoverers have named the root vulnerability "Copy Fail". All major distributions since 2017 are affected.

CVE-2026-31431 exploited in Linux since 2017, enabling root access via simple PoC, increasing container and cloud risks.

A high-severity Linux vulnerability, “Copy Fail” (CVE-2026-31431), enables root privilege escalation across cloud ...

The issue was disclosed by cybersecurity consultancy Theori, which said the flaw was discovered by its AI-powered penetration ...

CVE-2026-31431 CVSS 7.8 flaw since 2017 enables root via 732-byte exploit, impacting major Linux distributions.

CISA has warned that threat actors have started exploiting the "Copy Fail" Linux security vulnerability in the wild, one day ...

Malicious actors with code execution capability may gain root access on Linux systems using as few as 10 lines of Python, according to a researcher.

Copy Fail could represent a significant security risk in the making. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of ...

An exploit has been published for a local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed "Copy Fail" that impacts Linux kernels ...