CVE-2025-9810 (GCVE-0-2025-9810)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-01 19:03
Modified
2025-09-02 16:13
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Summary
TOCTOU in linenoiseHistorySave in linenoise allows local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files and change permissions via a symlink race between fopen("w") on the history path and subsequent chmod() on the same path.
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