STAR Labs disclosed CVE-2026-53264, a high-severity Linux kernel vulnerability in the network traffic-control subsystem that allows local privilege escalation to root on CentOS Stream 9. The researcher utilized AI to accelerate both vulnerability discovery and exploit development, demonstrating AI's growing role in security research.
STAR Labs has published a Linux kernel exploit that turns an ordinary local user into root on the CentOS Stream 9 build it targeted. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-53264 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a use-after-free race in the kernel's network traffic-control subsystem.Researcher Lee Jia Jie said artificial intelligence (AI) helped him find the bug and speed up exploit development. This is local
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