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CentOS 9 Security Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation – PoC Released

ID: 74102899-3c5f-509a-a146-5c090979d2bf

STIX ID: report--74102899-3c5f-509a-a146-5c090979d2bf

Feed Name: GBHackers

Threat Score
80/100

Date Published: 2026-02-06

Date Updated: 2026-04-22

Author: Divya

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A critical Use-After-Free flaw in CentOS 9's sch_cake packet scheduler enables local privilege escalation to root; a public PoC demonstrating KASLR bypass, heap spraying and a ROP chain has been released and no vendor patch is yet available, so administrators should restrict access to tc or sch_cake module loading until fixed.

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