CVE-2026-91205 (GCVE-0-2026-91205)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-18 19:14
Modified
2026-11-06 05:57
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-363 - Race Condition Enabling Link Following
Summary
A flaw was found in cockpit-files. A local unprivileged attacker can exploit a race condition during directory creation with owner assignment. By controlling a writable parent directory, the attacker can replace a newly created directory with a symbolic link (symlink) before the ownership change operation (chown) is applied. This allows the attacker to redirect the ownership change to an arbitrary file, potentially leading to information disclosure or unauthorized modification of sensitive files.
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Impacted products
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 |
Unaffected: 0:36.1-1.el10_2 < * cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.2 |
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