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Linux Battery Utility Vulnerability Allows Authentication Bypass And System Tampering - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

Summary by cybernoz.com
Linux laptop users are being urged to update after a flaw in a popular battery optimisation tool was found to allow authentication bypass and system tampering.   The vulnerability affects the TLP power profiles daemon introduced in version 1.9.0, which exposes a D-Bus API for managing power profiles with root privileges.  How the flaw works TLP’s profiles daemon runs as root and uses Polkit to decide whether a client is allowed to change power p…
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cybernoz.com broke the news in on Thursday, January 8, 2026.
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