Monday's hacking Linux - cups2root Linux LPE

Interactive root shell from a local account in the lpadmin group.

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A public PoC exploit, cups2root, chains a CUPS privilege escalation to take lpadmin users to root. No CVE or patch yet. See the mechanism and mitigations.

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