CVE-2026-31431, also known as Dirty Frag or Copy Fail, is a Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows attackers to write to read-only memory regions via page-cache abuse. Active exploitation was observed prior to the public embargo break, with threat actors deploying ELF binaries, Python scripts, and malicious PyPI packages to achieve root access, notably including adoption by the Multiverze trojan family.
Dirty Frag
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How Dirty Frag rose from the Copy Fail exploit Cyber Centre Daily Advisory Digest — 2026-05-08 (3 advisories) The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued advisories for Microsoft Edge, cPanel/WHM, and critical Linux kernel vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500) dubbed 'Dirty Frag'. The Linux flaws allow local privilege escalation to root, have public PoCs, and currently lack a universal patch, requiring immediate module-disabling mitigations.
