EIP-2026-102981

PRE-CVE

Rixstep Undercover - Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: legacy
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for EIP-2026-102981. PoCs published by Rixstep Pwned.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Rixstep Undercover by abusing a symlink race condition to overwrite arbitrary files with superuser privileges. The PoC uses a forked process to continuously overwrite a target file while another process invokes the vulnerable SUID tool.

Description

Rixstep Undercover - Local Privilege Escalation

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Rixstep Pwned · clocallinux
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/29467

This exploit leverages a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Rixstep Undercover by abusing a symlink race condition to overwrite arbitrary files with superuser privileges. The PoC uses a forked process to continuously overwrite a target file while another process invokes the vulnerable SUID tool.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Lpe
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Racy
Target: Rixstep Undercover (version unspecified, MD5 a30aa6239181928953527c9579a56471)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Rixstep Undercover installed and run once as administrator to create the SUID tool · Local access to the system
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

Details

Status pre_cve
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026