CVE-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694 Mrtg: mrtg daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via pid file path manipulation

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694

CVE-2026-72694 describes a local privilege escalation in MRTG. When MRTG runs as root and then drops privileges, a low-privileged attacker can exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the PID file path to trick the root process into changing ownership of an arbitrary existing file to the daem...

CVE-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

EUVD-2026-55977

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694 Mrtg: mrtg daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via pid file path manipulation

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

PT-2026-70085

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MRTG affected versions not specified Description A flaw exists when the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges. A local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability by...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-72694

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a...

CVE-2026-53765

Chrome DevTools for agents chrome-devtools-mcp lets your coding agent control and inspect a live Chrome browser. From 0.20.0 until 1.1.0, The chrome-devtools-mcp daemon writes its PID file with fs.writeFileSync to a deterministic runtime path. On typical macOS environments, and on Linux sessions...

CVE-2026-53765

CVE-2026-53765 / GHSA-3PVJ-JV98-QHJQ affects chrome-devtools-mcp (Chrome DevTools for agents). The vulnerability occurs when the daemon writes its PID file to a deterministic runtime path under /tmp on POSIX systems (macOS or Linux with XDG_RUNTIME_DIR unset). The code uses fs.writeFileSync() wit...

CVE-2026-53765 chrome-devtools-mcp: daemon.pid write follows symlinks in /tmp fallback runtime directory

Chrome DevTools for agents chrome-devtools-mcp lets your coding agent control and inspect a live Chrome browser. From 0.20.0 until 1.1.0, The chrome-devtools-mcp daemon writes its PID file with fs.writeFileSync to a deterministic runtime path. On typical macOS environments, and on Linux sessions...

GHSA-3PVJ-JV98-QHJQ Chrome DevTools for agents: daemon.pid write follows symlinks in /tmp fallback runtime directory

Summary The chrome-devtools-mcp daemon writes its PID file with fs.writeFileSync to a deterministic runtime path. On typical macOS environments, and on Linux sessions where $XDGRUNTIMEDIR is unset, that runtime path falls back to /tmp/chrome-devtools-mcp-/daemon.pid. Because the write does not us...

Symlink Attack

Overview chrome-devtools-mcp is a MCP server for Chrome DevTools Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack in the fs.writeFileSync process when writing the PID file to a runtime directory under /tmp if $XDGRUNTIMEDIR is unset. An attacker can overwrite or truncate arbitra...

PT-2026-50471

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions chrome-devtools-mcp affected versions not specified Description On POSIX systems, specifically macOS and Linux sessions where the XDG RUNTIME DIR environment variable is unset, the daemon writes its PID file to a deterministic path in /tmp usi...

USN-8360-1: sslh vulnerability

It was discovered that sslh did not properly handle symbolic links when writing its PID file. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in unbound

Unbound from NLnet Labs, including versions up to and including 1.12.0, and NSD from NLnet Labs, including versions up to and including 4.3.3, contain a local vulnerability that allows for a local symlink attack. When creating the PID file, Unbound and NSD either create the file if it does not...