CVE-2026-5398

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 52/100
Published: 2026-04-22 Modified: 2026-11-11 First seen: 2026-11-11 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: High
A: High

Description

The implementation of TIOCNOTTY failed to clear a back-pointer from the structure representing the controlling terminal to the calling process' session. If the invoking process then exits, the terminal structure may end up containing a pointer to freed memory. A malicious process can abuse the dangling pointer to grant itself root privileges.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (33)

Showing 30 of 33 entries

References & Advisories (1)

Bug Bounty Relevance

52 / 100
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

8.4 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.21%
Raw Score 0.002080
Percentile 11.0%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00208
2026-11-12
0.00208
2026-11-10
0.00208

Intelligence Sources

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