CVE-2026-88924
HIGH
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.02
BB Relevance:
29/100
Published: 2026-09-10
Modified: 2026-11-11
First seen: 2026-11-05
Status: active
Attack Surface
No Interaction
Conf. Impact
Integ. Impact
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Local
AC:
High
PR:
Low
UI:
None
S:
Unchanged
C:
High
I:
High
A:
High
Description
A flaw was found in the admin backend of gvfs. The privileged gvfsd-admin daemon changes the ownership of newly created private D-Bus sockets by calling the link-following chown() function on a pathname inside a user-controlled directory. A local attacker can exploit this via a Time-of-Check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition and exchange the socket pathname with a symbolic link pointing to an arbitrary root-owned file (such as /etc/pam.d/su). The daemon subsequently follows the symlink and changes the ownership of the targeted root-owned file to the attacker's user ID. This allows an authenticated local attacker to modify critical system files, leading to a full local privilege escalation to root.
Weakness Classification (1)
Affected Software (9)
References & Advisories (11)
vendor-advisory
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x_refsource_REDHAT
vdb-entry
x_refsource_REDHAT
issue-tracking
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