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The Immutable Illusion: Pwning Your Kernel with Cloud Files

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The Immutable Illusion: Pwning Your Kernel with Cloud Files

Researchers have identified a class of vulnerabilities that allows threat actors to bypass security restrictions and compromise kernel trust chains. The attack leverages cloud file systems to achieve kernel-level code execution through immutable file mechanisms that are not properly validated.

Why it matters: Organizations running cloud-based systems and kernels are exposed to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution: administrators should audit kernel security mechanisms and file system validation logic.

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