CVE-2022-0847 : "Dirty Pipe" Linux Local Privilege Escalation
On March 7, 2022, security researcher Max Kellerman disclosed Dirty Pipe, a Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), along with a proof of concept demonstrating how to exploit it. The vulnerability affects the Linux Kernel and allows users with low privileges to overwrite read-only files on kernels version 5.8 and later.