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High · 7.0 CVE-2026-35352 EUVD-2026-24986GHSA-9gh9-hwpr-rvqq

uutils coreutils mkfifo Privilege Escalation via TOCTOU Race Condition

Published Apr 22, 2026 · Updated May 4, 2026 · Assigned by canonical

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Uutils coreutils — —

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
Debian 14 rust-coreutils 0.10.0-1 —
Debian 13 rust-coreutils No fix yet —
Debian 12 rust-coreutils No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 rust-coreutils No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rust-coreutils No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling uutils 0.8.0-r2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io coreutils <= 0.8.0 — GHSA-9gh9-hwpr-rvqq

References