GHSA-r45p-762r-6pqjHighCVSS 6.3
acl before version 2.4.0 contains a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
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(), chmod(), acl_get_file(), and acl_set_file(). Attackers who control a pathname component can redirect file access control list operations to arbitrary files when getfacl, setfacl, or chacl is invoked by a privileged process over an attacker-controlled path, resulting in local privilege escalation.
🔗 References (5)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54370
- https://cgit.git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/acl.git/commit/?id=24a227d0ab8576612194f8a56c2314389adc74a5
- https://cgit.git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/acl.git/commit/?id=3589787cd589b34bdd9265936e17190b6d3f17d1
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/acl-toctou-symlink-traversal-via-getfacl-setfacl-chacl
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r45p-762r-6pqj