CVE-2026-12080 Qemu-kvm: qemu-guest-agent: local privilege escalation via symlink attack in guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys

A flaw was found in the QEMU Guest Agent qga. A local unprivileged user can exploit a vulnerability in the guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys command handler by manipulating symbolic links. This can occur either through a deterministic directory-symlink bypass or a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use TOCTOU...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-12080

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 the QEMU Guest Agent qga. A local unprivileged user can exploit a vulnerability in the guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys command handler by...

Amazon Linux 2023 : golang-github-burntsushi-toml-test, golang-github-burntsushi-toml-test-devel (ALAS2023-2026-1977)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1977 advisory. On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a path is a symbolic link and the path ends in /...

Amazon Linux 2023 : credentials-fetcher (ALAS2023-2026-1975)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1975 advisory. On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a path is a symbolic link and the path ends in /...

Amazon Linux 2023 : compat-golang-github-cpuguy83-md2man-2-devel, golang-github-cpuguy83-md2man, golang-github-cpuguy83-md2man-devel (ALAS2023-2026-1989)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1989 advisory. On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a path is a symbolic link and the path ends in /...

Amazon Linux 2023 : golist (ALAS2023-2026-1976)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1976 advisory. On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a path is a symbolic link and the path ends in /...

PT-2026-61584

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU Guest Agent affected versions not specified Description A flaw exists in the QEMU Guest Agent qga within the guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys command handler. A local unprivileged user can exploit this by manipulating symbolic links through ...

CVE-2026-58414: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

Network-AI is a TypeScript/Node.js multi-agent orchestrator. Prior to version 5.12.2, EnvironmentManager.backup recursively collects files using collectBackupFiles. collectBackupFiles uses statSyncfull, which follows symlinks. If data/ contains a symlink to a directory outside the environment roo...

CVE-2026-12080: UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

A flaw was found in the QEMU Guest Agent qga. A local unprivileged user can exploit a vulnerability in the guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys command handler by manipulating symbolic links. This can occur either through a deterministic directory-symlink bypass or a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use TOCTOU...

Medium: credentials-fetcher

Issue Overview: On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a path is a symbolic link and the path ends in /. For example, 'root.Open"symlink/"' will open "symlink" even when "symlink" is a symboli...

Medium: golang

Issue Overview: On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a path is a symbolic link and the path ends in /. For example, 'root.Open"symlink/"' will open "symlink" even when "symlink" is a symboli...

Medium: golang-github-burntsushi-toml-test

Issue Overview: On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a path is a symbolic link and the path ends in /. For example, 'root.Open"symlink/"' will open "symlink" even when "symlink" is a symboli...

Medium: golang-github-burntsushi-toml

Issue Overview: On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a path is a symbolic link and the path ends in /. For example, 'root.Open"symlink/"' will open "symlink" even when "symlink" is a symboli...

Medium: golang-github-cpuguy83-md2man

Issue Overview: On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a path is a symbolic link and the path ends in /. For example, 'root.Open"symlink/"' will open "symlink" even when "symlink" is a symboli...

Medium: golist

Issue Overview: On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a path is a symbolic link and the path ends in /. For example, 'root.Open"symlink/"' will open "symlink" even when "symlink" is a symboli...

Amazon Linux 2023 : golang-github-burntsushi-toml, golang-github-burntsushi-toml-devel (ALAS2023-2026-1978)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1978 advisory. On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a path is a symbolic link and the path ends in /...

CVE-2026-64057

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix the locking used by afsgetlink The afs filesystem in the kernel doesn't do locking correctly for symbolic links. There are a number of problems: 1 It doesn't do any locking around afsreadsingle to prevent races between...

CVE-2026-64057 afs: Fix the locking used by afs_get_link()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix the locking used by afsgetlink The afs filesystem in the kernel doesn't do locking correctly for symbolic links. There are a number of problems: 1 It doesn't do any locking around afsreadsingle to prevent races between...

EUVD-2026-45630

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix the locking used by afsgetlink The afs filesystem in the kernel doesn't do locking correctly for symbolic links. There are a number of problems: 1 It doesn't do any locking around afsreadsingle to prevent races between...

CVE-2026-64057 afs: Fix the locking used by afs_get_link()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix the locking used by afsgetlink The afs filesystem in the kernel doesn't do locking correctly for symbolic links. There are a number of problems: 1 It doesn't do any locking around afsreadsingle to prevent races between...