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Low · 3.3 CVE-2026-112913 EUVD-2026-117811GHSA-9vhv-jxww-xfm5

filelock: ReadWriteLock on Windows acts on SQLite side files another local user places beside its database

Published Nov 5, 2026 · Updated Nov 6, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

filelock is a platform-independent file lock for Python. From 3.20.4 until 4.2.1, ReadWriteLock and AsyncReadWriteLock on Windows use _connect to attach SQLite to the lock database by pathname, allowing another local account that can create adjacent names to place a database-wal or database-journal side file before acquisition. An undeletable WAL file makes each read or write acquisition fail immediately with sqlite3.OperationalError regardless of timeout. Separately, when the database contains at least one table, a hot journal that grants the lock account modify rights can cause SQLite recovery to delete a file named by that journal only when the lock account has permission to delete the target. The issue requires a directory writable by another account, such as a shared Windows temporary directory, and does not affect private directories. This issue is fixed in version 4.2.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
tox-dev filelock >= 3.20.4, < 4.2.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 python-filelock No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS python-filelock No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS python-filelock No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS python-filelock No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS python-filelock No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS python-filelock No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling open-webui 0.12.3-r10 —
Wolfi rolling py3-cassandra-medusa 0.31.0-r3 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI filelock >= 3.20.4, < 4.2.1 4.2.1 GHSA-9vhv-jxww-xfm5

References