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Terminal2Shell: Critical flaw grants instant shell access on every major OS
(terminal2shell.com)
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this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2026
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Getting a shell is bad, but what makes this worse is the insecurity of popular Linux tools that can be used for privilege escalation.
The
sudoprogram has had a known vulnerability since its inception. The developers are incompetent. In some configurations, all you need is the user's password and you can execute arbitrary code as root. Sometimes, no password is needed at all.That's why there's no
sudoon my system, onlydoas.sudo is so broken, automatic privilege cloning of any user