uutils/coreutils · Security

uutils coreutils has a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition

GHSA ID
GHSA-9gh9-hwpr-rvqq
CVE ID
CVE-2026-35352
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
7 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3
7 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition exists in the mkfifo utility of uutils coreutils. The utility creates a FIFO and then performs a path-based chmod to set permissions. A local attacker with write access to the parent directory can swap the newly created FIFO for a symbolic link between these two operations. This redirects the chmod call to an arbitrary file, potentially enabling privilege escalation if the utility is run with elevated privileges.

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