alt Hacker NewsBecause in order to exploit this, you have to have direct access to the computer. Either through malicious usb device, or by exploiting some supply chain or a known piece of software that will be willingly or automatically installed, and furthermore you need to be able to essentially run arbitrary terminal commands, which is a huge breach of isolation in that software.
If an attacker manages to do all that, its already bad news for you. Escalation to root with this is the least of your worries at that point.
Like someone else below posted, https://xkcd.com/1200/
People need to understand what the vulnerability actually is before freaking out about it.
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So a threat actor buys access to a managed kubernetes service, or other linux-based shared hosting platform, and now they have access to the computer.
Hell, GitHub Actions would do.
You are assuming that LPE only applies to the user that holds all the sensitive stuff. But it also applies to users created specifically for isolation. Without LPE they would not have access to anything important even if they were compromised.