# OpenAI reports patches for almost 1,000 Linux privilege escalation flaws

> Original title: we've found, validated, and prepared patches for almost 1,000 linux local privilege escalations using our cyber vulnerability pipeline, a...

- Source: Greg Brockman
- Published: 2026-11-04T23:53:31.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/wkaurer6qofpnzd3ja8t6b9l8
- Original: https://x.com/gdb/status/2118129547443056763

## Summary

OpenAI says its cyber vulnerability pipeline found, validated, and prepared patches for almost 1,000 Linux local privilege escalations, at about $1,000 per vulnerability. A quoted OpenAI post says one run with an upcoming cyber model validated and generated patches for 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, at a total API cost of $1.2 million. The accompanying funnel shows 2,308 candidate findings, 1,724 validated findings, and 948 working local privilege escalation exploits.

## Post

we've found, validated, and prepared patches for almost 1,000 linux local privilege escalations using our cyber vulnerability pipeline, at the cost about $1,000 per vulnerability.

an emerging scalable approach to significantly hardening both open source and proprietary projects

## Quoted post @OpenAI

> Our security researchers built an autonomous cyber vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching pipeline.
> 
> In a single run with an upcoming cyber model, it validated and generated patches for 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel at a total API cost of $1.2 million.

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2118119451401048497