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  "record": {
    "id": "CVE-2026-72693",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72693",
    "idYear": 2026,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2026-08-11T08:39:24.983Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T03:46:24.896Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z",
    "snapshot": {
      "id": "cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline",
      "at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
    },
    "facts": {
      "title": "Kbd: local privilege escalation in openvt via incorrect process owner verification allowing passwordless root login",
      "summary": "`openvt -u` is intended to identify the owner of the current VT and then execute `login` as that user from a privileged context. In the documented `kbrequest`/init usage, the ownership test in `authenticate_user()` relies on `stat(\"/proc/<pid>/fd/0\")`. `stat()` on `/proc/<pid>/fd/0` follows the symlink to the underlying TTY device node. As a result, `buf.st_uid` reflects the owner of the TTY node rather than the owner of the process holding the file descriptor. If the TTY owner returns to `root` or the getty owner after logout while an unprivileged process still has `fd 0` attached to that TTY, the check can incorrectly treat that process as belonging to the privileged console owner. Once that check succeeds, the `-u` path executes a passwordless login as the selected user. In the documented `kbrequest`/init deployment using `openvt -us`, this can result in passwordless `login -f root` on the spawned VT. This report establishes that privilege escalation path for that documented deployment; it does not claim equivalent reachability for deployments that do not use `openvt -u` from a privileged `kbrequest`/init path.",
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          "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
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          "product": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22",
          "packageName": "openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9",
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          "vendor": "Red Hat",
          "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
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          "vendor": "Red Hat",
          "product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
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