CISA issues warning on active exploitation of PwnKit Linux vulnerability

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CISA issues warning on active exploitation of the PwnKit vulnerability
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CISA issues warning on active exploitation of the PwnKit vulnerability

All US federal agencies that fall under the Federal Civilian Executive Branch are required to secure their systems against the bug by July 18

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week added a Linux security vulnerability called PwnKit to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue and warned that th...

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