Introduction This will be a brief blog post where we will be testing the newly discovered privilege escalation vulnerability CVE-2024-1086 on Ubuntu 22.04.4 Server. This exploit uses namespaces and nftables and can run on almost any linux kernel between v5.14 and v6.6.
Downloading the Ubuntu 22.04 Server ISO Even though I would’ve liked to spin up a cloud VM, this exploit generally does not like a lot of network traffic, so if you were thinking that you’ll be able to pwn every single HTB machine, sorry to break it to you, but it is not possible for the most part.