acl: Symlink traversal privilege escalation via libacl functions

A flaw was found in the acl package, specifically within its libacl pathname-based functions. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using a symbolic link to replace a pathname component. This could allow the attacker to redirect access control list ACL read or write operations to...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: acl security update

An update for acl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is availab...

cve-2026-11837-ansible-posix-authorized-key

CVE-2026-11837: ansible.posix authorizedkey local privilege escalation Local privilege escalation in the ansible.posix.authorizedkey Ansible module via symlink-following chown and symlink-following file creation on a user's /.ssh directory and authorizedkeys file. This is a writeup of a...

EUVD-2022-56059

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 ...

PT-2026-91227

Description The setuid-root worker-launcher binary adjusts ownership and permissions of worker directories by walking the tree with FTS and calling lchown and chmod on each entry's full pathname while running with an effective uid of 0. Both syscalls re-resolve the path at the time of the call,...

CVE-2026-89699

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: validate symlink target length in NFSv4 CREATE nfsd4decodecreate accepts an unbounded crdatalen from the wire for NF4LNK symlink targets, allowing a client to force a kmalloc of up to the maximum RPC payload size several Mi...

RHEL 9 : acl (RHSA-2026:67144)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:67144 advisory. Access Control Lists ACLs are used to define fine-grained discretionary access rights for files and directories. The acl packages contain the getfac...

CVE-2026-90616

In Flatpak before 1.18.1, a malicious sandboxed app can obtain arbitrary read and write access to files on the host, which can be escalated to arbitrary code execution on the host, a different vulnerability than CVE-2026-76925. Flatpak creates a few app data directories e.g., /var/cache, /var/dat...

CVE-2025-8110

CVE-2025-8110 — Gogs Symlink Traversal → RCE Overview CVE-2025-8110 is a critical vulnerability in Gogs self-hosted Git service versions = 0.13.3. The PutContents API validates file paths for directory-traversal ../ but does not resolve symbolic links before writing. An authenticated user can pus...

CVE-2025-4138

CVE-2025-4138 Python Tarfile module Directory Traversal Vulnerability With overflow crossed Directory Impact : Privilege escalation Working : Python's TarFile.extractall and TarFile.extract methods support a feature that allows a filter to be set to improve the safety of using these methods...

CVE-2025-27591-Meta-below-LPE

CVE-2025-27591 — Meta below Symlink Local Privilege Escalation Overview Field| Details ---|--- CVE| CVE-2025-27591 Software| Meta below system resource monitor Affected Versions| 0.9.0 Vulnerability| Symlink following → arbitrary file overwrite as root Authentication| Local user with sudo access ...

onetwoseven-writeup

HTB OneTwoSeven — Walkthrough completo Un walkthrough completo, de principio a fin, de OneTwoSeven , una máquina Linux retirada de HackTheBox. La cadena completa: generación determinista de credenciales → escape del chroot de SFTP mediante enlaces simbólicos → recuperación del archivo swap de vim...

CVE-2024-50404

CVE-2024-50404 https://www.qnap.com/en/security-advisory/qsa-24-48 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=2024-50404 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N 6.8 "A link following vulnerability has been reported to affect Qsync Central. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow...

ZigRaceExploit

CVE-2021-25741 — TOCTOU Symlink Race Exploit in Zig Educational exploit of the TOCTOU Time Of Check, Time Of Use race condition behind CVE-2021-25741, a vulnerability in the Kubernetes kubelet. The project demonstrates locally without a K8s cluster how a concurrent symlink swap can bypass a path...

CVE-2025-27591

CVE-2025-27591 – Privilege Escalation via Symlink Abuse in below 🛑 Disclaimer : This exploit is provided for educational and authorized security testing only. Unauthorized use may be illegal. 🧠 Overview below is a performance monitoring tool developed by Facebook for Linux systems. Versions of...

CVE-2025-55130

CVE-2025-55130 - Node.js Permission Model Symlink Escape root@kitploit: / | | | | |/ \ / \ | | | | / | // \ | | || | || || || | | | | \ | \ \ | | | | | | |/|| \ ||| ||/||| | || | || | |/ |//||// Node.js Permission Model Bypass via Crafted Symlinks Discovered by natann @ JFrog Overview A path...

7Ziprowler

7-ZiProwler CVE-2025-11001 Overview Result of my quick research on CVE-2025-11001 are presented in this repo. Exploit is written in python and astral uv project manager. References Some: NIST ZDI CVE News WIZ Quick analysis I will not dig too deep into technical details of this security flaw. If...

POC-CVE-2024-44258-Py

Conceptual PoC CVE-2024-44258: Symlink Vulnerability in iOS Requirement: Python 3.7+ • License: MIT ⚠️ Warning: This repository contains a proof-of-concept PoC developed for exclusively educational and research purposes. It is not a fully functional exploit. Its use on devices without proper...

SparstanBoogie

SparstanBoogie's origins were tested reportedly on iOS/iPadOS 15.2 - 16.7 RC 20H18 and 17.0 however, tests have been conducted up to 26.1 26.1. Also any testing on devices above or under whats been reported is welcomed as it may come back in newer devices so theres no reason to shrug off any good...