CVE-2026-88924 (GCVE-0-2026-88924)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-10 14:32
Modified
2026-10-20 23:01
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Summary
A flaw was found in the admin backend of gvfs. The privileged gvfsd-admin daemon changes the ownership of newly created private D-Bus sockets by calling the link-following chown() function on a pathname inside a user-controlled directory. A local attacker can exploit this via a Time-of-Check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition and exchange the socket pathname with a symbolic link pointing to an arbitrary root-owned file (such as /etc/pam.d/su). The daemon subsequently follows the symlink and changes the ownership of the targeted root-owned file to the attacker's user ID. This allows an authenticated local attacker to modify critical system files, leading to a full local privilege escalation to root.
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