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...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-54370

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - acl before version 2.4.0 contains a time-of-check to time-of-use TOCTOU race condition vulnerability that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by...

CVE-2026-54370

acl before version 2.4.0 contains a time-of-check to time-of-use TOCTOU race condition vulnerability that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by replacing a pathname component with a symbolic link between an lstat check and subsequent symlink-following operations such as stat, chown,...

CVE-2026-54369

acl before version 2.4.0 contains a symlink traversal vulnerability in the libacl pathname-based functions aclgetfile, aclsetfile, aclextendedfile, and acldeletedeffile that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by replacing any pathname component with a symbolic link. Attackers who contr...