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Analysis · Jun 21, 2026 · Colten Anderson
The CUPS chain needed a print job. The DDoS didn't.
Three CVEs in CUPS produced 20 months of scanning probes and zero attributed RCE exploitation. The constraint that stopped mass exploitation is also the reason cups-browsed still needs to go.
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Analysis · Jun 17, 2026 · Colten Anderson
regreSSHion proved 'hard to exploit' is not a patch window
CVE-2024-6387 got filed under 'low priority' because it's slow on 64-bit. The CVSS score measured exploit difficulty, not what a root RCE in sshd actually puts at risk.
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Analysis · May 20, 2026 · Colten Anderson
The Linux firewall bug your users can reach because you gave them a private root
CVE-2024-1086 is an nf_tables use-after-free that hands a local user root. The reason an unprivileged user can touch the kernel's packet-filtering engine at all is unprivileged user namespaces, and turning those off defuses a whole class of these bugs at once.
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Analysis · May 3, 2026 · Colten Anderson
Copy Fail is a 732-byte root shell. Patch your Linux fleet this week.
CVE-2026-31431 is a deterministic privilege escalation in the Linux kernel affecting versions 4.14 through 6.19. A Python script gives any local user root. Every major distro is affected, containers don't help, and the mitigation is trivial.