CVE-2026-25704 Incomplete privilege drop for com.system76.CosmicGreeter.GetUserData

A Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors/Time-of-check Time-of-use TOCTOU Race Condition vulnerability in cosmic-greeter can allow an attacker to regain privileges that should have been dropped and abuse them in the racy checking logic. This issue affects cosmic-greeter before...

CVE-2026-25704 Incomplete privilege drop for com.system76.CosmicGreeter.GetUserData

A Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors/Time-of-check Time-of-use TOCTOU Race Condition vulnerability in cosmic-greeter can allow an attacker to regain privileges that should have been dropped and abuse them in the racy checking logic. This issue affects cosmic-greeter before...

CVE-2026-25704

The CVE-2026-25704 entry concerns cosmic-greeter and describes a TOCTOU race condition that can allow a local attacker to regain privileges that should have been dropped due to incomplete privilege dropping in the GetUserData flow. Multiple connected feeds corroborate that the issue affects cosmi...

PT-2026-29973

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Sudo versions through 1.9.17p2 Description A failure of a setuid, setgid, or setgroups call during a privilege drop before running the mailer is not a fatal error and can lead to privilege escalation. Recommendations Update Sudo to a version...

MiracleLinux 8 : zsh-5.5.1-6.el8.2 (AXSA:2020-122:05)

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2020-122:05 advisory. zsh: insecure dropping of privileges when unsetting PRIVILEGED option CVE-2019-20044 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...

MiracleLinux 8 : nodejs:20 (AXSA:2024-7668:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2024-7668:01 advisory. nodejs: vulnerable to timing variant of the Bleichenbacher attack against PKCS1 v1.5 padding Marvin CVE-2023-46809 nodejs: reading unprocessed HTTP...

MiracleLinux 4 : zsh-4.3.11-11.AXS4 (AXSA:2020-4504:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2020-4504:01 advisory. zsh: insecure dropping of privileges when unsetting PRIVILEGED option CVE-2019-20044 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...

Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 Improper Check for Dropped Privileges (CVE-2019-18276)

An issue was discovered in disableprivmode in shell.c in GNU Bash through 5.0 patch 11. By default, if Bash is run with its effective UID not equal to its real UID, it will drop privileges by setting its effective UID to its real UID. However, it does so incorrectly. On Linux and other systems th...

Security update for chrony

This update for chrony fixes the following issues: Update to version 4.8: Add maxunreach option to limit selection of unreachable sources Add -u option to chronyc to drop root privileges default chronyc user is set by configure script Fix refclock extpps option to work on Linux = 6.15 Validate...

EUVD-2017-3357

Malware in sbrugna...

EUVD-2025-19704

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

EUVD-2023-2102

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-12847

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Nagios Core before 4.3.3 creates a nagios.lock PID file after dropping privileges to a non-root account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary process...

USN-7714-1 open-vm-tools vulnerabilities

Matthias Gerstner discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled file descriptors when dropping privileges. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to hijack /dev/uinput and simulate user inputs. CVE-2023-34059 Dolev Farhi discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled certain file...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-14102

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - MIMEDefang 2.80 and earlier creates a PID file after dropping privileges to a non-root account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by...

CVE-2025-24331 Nokia Single RAN baseband OAM service extensive capabilities

The Single RAN baseband OAM service is intended to run as an unprivileged service. However, it initially starts with root privileges and assigns certain capabilities before dropping to an unprivileged level. The capabilities retained from the root period are considered extensive after the privile...

CLSA-2025-1750444475 open-vm-tools: Fix of 2 CVEs

CVE-2023-34058: don't accept tokens with unrelated certs - CVE-2023-34059: fix file descriptor vuln by moving privilege drop from suidWrapper to vmtoolsd...

TencentOS Server 3: postgresql:13 (TSSA-2024:0088)

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 3 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2024:0088 advisory. Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:...

Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0031: postgresql:13 (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0031)

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2024:0031 advisory. Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-0985: Late privilege drop in REFRESH...

SUSE CVE-2025-23395

Screen 5.0.0 when it runs with setuid-root privileges does not drop privileges while operating on a user supplied path. This allows unprivileged users to create files in arbitrary locations with root ownership, the invoking user's real group ownership and file mode 0644. All data written to the...