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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
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"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72693"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72693.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72693"
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/\u003cpid\u003e/fd/0\")`. `stat()` on `/proc/\u003cpid\u003e/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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