Understanding and Defending Against CVE-2026-58302: A LinuxCNC Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2026-58302 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in LinuxCNC before version 2.9.9, allowing unprivileged local users to escalate privileges to root. This vulnerability is caused by insufficient validation of user-supplied module names, leading to path traversal and arbitrary shared library loading. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.4, indicating high severity.