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Researchers Publish Working Exploit for Pre-Auth AnyDesk Linux Flaw That Gives Root Access

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What happened

Security researchers have published a full working exploit (a piece of code that turns a flaw into a way in) for a pre-authentication remote code execution (running programs on a machine from somewhere else) flaw in AnyDesk Linux that gives attackers root access before anyone approves the connection.

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