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administrator/root is turned off by default, and even if the user turned it on during boot, they would still have to be tricked into approving or putting in their password again, am I missing something about the veracity of possible exploits?



There are some exploits that allow for gaining root access.

One that comes to mind is dirty sock[0]. It uses a vulnerability in the snap api to create a root user.

https://github.com/initstring/dirty_sock/blob/master/dirty_s...




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