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CVE-2026-59676 (GCVE-0-2026-59676)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-23 06:40 – Updated: 2026-07-23 14:02
VLAI
Title
Local File Deletion Attack Vector in rm_rf() in seunshare
Summary
A Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in seunshare of selinux policycoreutils allows a user calling seunshare that is running in the unconfined SELinux domain to delete arbitrary root-owned files, This issue affects policycoreutils through 3.10.
Severity
5.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-23 14:02 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SELinuxProject selinux Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.10 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-07-17 06:36
Credits
Matthias Gerstner of SUSE
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