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OpenBSD through 7.9 has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root (CVE-2026-57589)

Steady
Signal score
25
as of 64d ago
Sources
2
agreeing on openbsd
Trajectory
Too early
needs a few more snapshots

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We began recording the five terms behind every score in mid-July 2026, and the most recent reading for this topic is older than that. The score above is the one it was actually given at the time — we just didn't keep the arithmetic that produced it, and we won't reconstruct it after the fact. If it surfaces again, the next reading carries a full breakdown. Full methodology

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