Vertical privilege escalation involves gaining higher access levels within a single system, often seeking root or administrative privileges. Attackers achieve this by exploiting software flaws ...

Google LLC’s Mandiant has published details of a critical privilege escalation vulnerability found in Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Kubernetes service that, though patched by Microsoft, could have ...

Intel, who also discovered this issue internally via its own engineers, flagged the flaw as a privilege escalation issue, confirming the possibility. They also rated the vulnerability with 8.8 out ...

Cybersecurity provider Tenable has released patches for three vulnerabilities in Nessus, its vulnerability scanner. The high-severity vulnerabilities can allow privilege escalation, code execution and ...

Microsoft warns CVE-2025-29824 lets attackers with user access escalate privileges to deploy ransomware via a flaw in Windows CLFS.