The Polkit Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, PwnKit, has been hidden in plain view for more than a decade — 12 years to be precise — in Linux. The vulnerability was identified by Qualys’ researchers in November, 2021. Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities, such as PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034), allow unprivileged local users to get root privileges. The PwnKit vulnerability was
Migrating your infrastructure from on-premise to Private Cloud will allow you to focus on your core business, without wasting efforts and money on managing and maintaining your own in-house IT infrastructure. Unlike most Public Cloud solutions, a private cloud environment, as those we design at Stackscale, allows more specific and custom configurations, making the migration
Grafana’s versions 8.3.4 and 7.5.13 were released on January 18th, 2022. These two new versions include some patches to fix important security issues for all installations of Grafana 7.5.x and 8.x. These versions are only vulnerable in case that the administrator has used “OAuth forwarding” for data sources and uses API keys. OAuth Identity Token
CentOS Linux was launched in 2004 and has been regularly updated until the discontinuation of CentOS 8 in 2021. Distributed under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), it stood out as a stable, predictable and easy to use Linux distribution, with a big community supporting it. CentOS is short for “Community Enterprise Operating System”.
