CVE-2026-91205 Cockpit-files: cockpit-files: local attacker can hijack file ownership via symlink race

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...

EUVD-2026-83291

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...

CVE-2026-91205

cockpit-files is vulnerable to a symlink race condition during directory creation with owner assignment. A local unprivileged attacker who controls a writable parent directory can replace a newly created directory with a symbolic link before the chown operation is applied, redirecting ownership c...

CVE-2026-54576 mport package installation has symlink TOCTOU in chown and chmod handling

mport is the MidnightBSD Package Manager. Prior to 2.7.8, doactualinstall in libmport/bundlereadinstallpkg.c used path-based lstat, chown, stat, and chmod operations while installing package files. A local attacker with write access to a target directory could replace a checked file with a symlin...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-42917

In FRRouting FRR before 8.5, the service user usually frr can escalate its privileges to root by monitoring the configuration directory /etc/frr and replacing config files upon creation with, for example, symlinks to change the ownership of arbitrary files. This is a TOCTOU Race Condition caused ...

SUSE: CVE-2022-42917: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

In FRRouting FRR before 8.5, the service user usually frr can escalate its privileges to root by monitoring the configuration directory /etc/frr and replacing config files upon creation with, for example, symlinks to change the ownership of arbitrary files. This is a TOCTOU Race Condition caused ...

CVE-2022-42917

In FRRouting (FRR) before 8.5 , the frr service user can escalate privileges to root by exploiting a TOCTOU race condition caused by the combination of touch and chown during configuration file creation in /etc/frr. An attacker with access to the frr user can monitor the configuration directory a...

CVE-2022-42917

In FRRouting FRR before 8.5, the service user usually frr can escalate its privileges to root by monitoring the configuration directory /etc/frr and replacing config files upon creation with, for example, symlinks to change the ownership of arbitrary files. This is a TOCTOU Race Condition caused ...

CVE-2022-42917

In FRRouting FRR before 8.5, the service user usually frr can escalate its privileges to root by monitoring the configuration directory /etc/frr and replacing config files upon creation with, for example, symlinks to change the ownership of arbitrary files. This is a TOCTOU Race Condition caused ...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-77159

A symlink-following flaw was found in libvirt's qemuTPMEmulatorPrepareHost function. The function uses a path-based chown on the swtpm logfile without checking for symbolic links. A local attacker with access to the swtpm account can replace the logfile with a symlink, causing libvirtd running as...

CVE-2026-77159

A symlink-following flaw was found in libvirt's qemuTPMEmulatorPrepareHost function. The function uses a path-based chown on the swtpm logfile without checking for symbolic links. A local attacker with access to the swtpm account can replace the logfile with a symlink, causing libvirtd running as...

CVE-2026-77159

A symlink-following flaw was found in libvirt's qemuTPMEmulatorPrepareHost function. The function uses a path-based chown on the swtpm logfile without checking for symbolic links. A local attacker with access to the swtpm account can replace the logfile with a symlink, causing libvirtd running as...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-77159

A symlink-following flaw was found in libvirt's qemuTPMEmulatorPrepareHost function. The function uses a path-based chown on the swtpm logfile without checking for symbolic links. A local attacker with access to the swtpm account can replace the logfile with a symlink, causing libvirtd running as...

CVE-2026-77159 Libvirt: unsafe chown in qemutpmemulatorpreparehost() allows arbitrary file ownership change via symlink

A symlink-following flaw was found in libvirt's qemuTPMEmulatorPrepareHost function. The function uses a path-based chown on the swtpm logfile without checking for symbolic links. A local attacker with access to the swtpm account can replace the logfile with a symlink, causing libvirtd running as...

EUVD-2026-76034

A symlink-following flaw was found in libvirt's qemuTPMEmulatorPrepareHost function. The function uses a path-based chown on the swtpm logfile without checking for symbolic links. A local attacker with access to the swtpm account can replace the logfile with a symlink, causing libvirtd running as...

CVE-2026-77159

A symlink-following flaw was found in libvirt's qemuTPMEmulatorPrepareHost function. The function uses a path-based chown on the swtpm logfile without checking for symbolic links. A local attacker with access to the swtpm account can replace the logfile with a symlink, causing libvirtd running as...

CVE-2026-77159 Libvirt: unsafe chown in qemutpmemulatorpreparehost() allows arbitrary file ownership change via symlink

A symlink-following flaw was found in libvirt's qemuTPMEmulatorPrepareHost function. The function uses a path-based chown on the swtpm logfile without checking for symbolic links. A local attacker with access to the swtpm account can replace the logfile with a symlink, causing libvirtd running as...

CVE-2026-77159

A symlink-following flaw in libvirt's qemuTPMEmulatorPrepareHost() function performs a path-based chown() on the swtpm log file without validating for symbolic links. A local attacker with access to the swtpm account can replace the log file with a symlink, causing the root-level libvirtd daemon ...

CVE-2026-77159

A symlink-following flaw was found in libvirt's qemuTPMEmulatorPrepareHost function. The function uses a path-based chown on the swtpm logfile without checking for symbolic links. A local attacker with access to the swtpm account can replace the logfile with a symlink, causing libvirtd running as...

CVE-2026-77159: UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

A symlink-following flaw was found in libvirt's qemuTPMEmulatorPrepareHost function. The function uses a path-based chown on the swtpm logfile without checking for symbolic links. A local attacker with access to the swtpm account can replace the logfile with a symlink, causing libvirtd running as...