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# “we’ve found, validated, and prepared patches for almost 1,000 linux local privilege…”

Greg Brockman (@gdb), X, 2026-11-04.
Source: https://x.com/gdb/status/2118129547443056763

## Archived text

> 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.
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> an emerging scalable approach to significantly hardening both open source and proprietary projects
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> > Quoting @OpenAI: Our security researchers built an autonomous cyber vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching pipeline.
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> > 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.

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## Cited in

- 2026-11-04: [OpenAI: an upcoming cyber model validated and patched 948 Linux kernel privilege-escalation bugs in one run for $1.2M in API costs](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-04-openai-cyber-pipeline-948-linux-privilege-escalations/)