Fragnesia: New Linux Privilege Escalation Exploit

Lobsters Hottest 05/13/26, 04:29 PM News

linux privilege-escalation exploit security vulnerability fragnesia poc

Summary

A new Linux privilege escalation exploit called Fragnesia has been released with proof-of-concept code on GitHub.

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pocs

we will release pocs in this repo

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