https://github.com/ubuntu/authd/security/advisories/GHSA-g8qw-mgjx-rwjr

When a user who hasn't logged in to the system before (i.e. doesn't exist in the authd user database) logs in via SSH, the user is considered a member of the root group in the context of the SSH session. That leads to a local privilege escalation if the user should not have root privileges.

@cR0w but Mark Shuttleworth only hires the finest high school valedictorians after a 12 month hazing process posing as an interview!

@rootwyrm @cR0w from the team that created the new image of WVWA, Pound Ridge, New York.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsHYp4k7fFw

NINE! - WVWA Pound Ridge, New York

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