CVE-2021-28153EPSS p85.7%
CVE-2021-28153CVE-2021-28153
gnome / glib
Description
An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.8. When g_file_replace() is used with G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION to replace a path that is a dangling symlink, it incorrectly also creates the target of the symlink as an empty file, which could conceivably have security relevance if the symlink is attacker-controlled. (If the path is a symlink to a file that already exists, then the contents of that file correctly remain unchanged.)
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.3 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| EPSS | 2.71% probability of exploitation · percentile 85.7% · 2026-10-17T12:00:28Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-14 |