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1 vulnerability found for cosmic-greeter by pop-os

CVE-2026-25704 (GCVE-0-2026-25704)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-03-30 07:44
Modified
2026-04-16 16:32
CWE
  • CWE-271 - Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Summary
A Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors/Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability inĀ  cosmic-greeter can allow an attacker to regain privileges that should have been dropped and abuse them in the racy checking logic. This issue affects cosmic-greeter before https://github.Com/pop-os/cosmic-greeter/pull/426.
Impacted products
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