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CVE-2025-9810 (GCVE-0-2025-9810)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-01 19:03 – Updated: 2026-04-22 15:06
VLAI
Title
TOCTOU race in Linenoise enables arbitrary file overwrite and permission changes
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.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-02 16:13 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
antirez linenoise Affected: 0
guessed Create a notification for this product.
Credits
@disconnect3d Simcha Kosman
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