HIGHCVE-2026-35352Published Modified CNA canonical
CVE-2026-35352: uutils coreutils mkfifo Privilege Escalation via TOCTOU Race Condition
A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition exists in the mkfifo utility of uutils coreutils. The utility creates a FIFO and then performs a path-based chmod to set permissions. A local attacker with write access to the parent directory can swap the newly created FIFO for a symbolic link between these two operations. This redirects the chmod call to an arbitrary file, potentially enabling privilege escalation if the utility is run with elevated privileges.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.0
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- —
- Affected Products
- 1
Affected packages
- Uutils / coreutils
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HReferences