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CVE-2026-59677 (GCVE-0-2026-59677)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-23 06:43 – Updated: 2026-07-23 14:02
VLAI
Title
Process Kill Attack Vector in killall() in seunshare
Summary
A Missing Authorization vulnerability in selinux policycoreutils seunshares allows a user that is running in unconfined context to kill e.g. root-owned processes running also in unconfined context This issue affects policycoreutils through 3.10.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/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
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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