cve-2026-31431-copy-fail
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Apr 30, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill provides Python code that implements a local privilege escalation (LPE) attack. It utilizes the 'socket.AF_ALG' and 'os.splice' system calls to perform unauthorized writes to the Linux kernel's page cache, specifically targeting the '/etc/passwd' file to change a user's UID to 0.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The provided exploit script attempts to spawn an interactive root shell by calling 'os.execvp' to execute the 'su' command after successfully patching the system's identity database in memory.
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The documentation guides users to clone a repository from an external, untrusted third-party source at 'https://github.com/rootsecdev/cve_2026_31431.git' to obtain the full exploit toolkit.
- [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: By instructing users to download and immediately execute code from an external repository for the purpose of a system exploit, the skill creates a significant remote code execution risk.
Recommendations
- AI detected serious security threats
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