EIP-2026-103022
PRE-CVETower Toppler 0.96 - 'HOME Environment' Local Buffer Overflow
Title source: legacyExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for EIP-2026-103022. PoCs published by FBHowns.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a buffer overflow in the HOME environment variable of Tower Toppler (Nebulous version 0.96) to achieve local privilege escalation (LPE) by executing shellcode that sets the GID to 20 (games). The shellcode combines a setregid(20,20) call with a standard /bin/sh spawn.
Description
Tower Toppler 0.96 - 'HOME Environment' Local Buffer Overflow
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a buffer overflow in the HOME environment variable of Tower Toppler (Nebulous version 0.96) to achieve local privilege escalation (LPE) by executing shellcode that sets the GID to 20 (games). The shellcode combines a setregid(20,20) call with a standard /bin/sh spawn.