GHSA-9gh9-hwpr-rvqqHighCVSS 7.0

uutils coreutils has a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition

Published
April 22, 2026
Last Modified
May 8, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • rust/coreutils:<= 0.8.0

🔗 References (6)