CVE-2026-35352EPSS p3.9%
CVE-2026-35352CVE-2026-35352
uutils / coreutils
Description
A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition exists in the mkfifo utility of uutils coreutils. The utility creates a FIFO and then performs a path-based chmod to set permissions. A local attacker with write access to the parent directory can swap the newly created FIFO for a symbolic link between these two operations. This redirects the chmod call to an arbitrary file, potentially enabling privilege escalation if the utility is run with elevated privileges.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.0 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.15% probability of exploitation · percentile 3.9% · 2026-10-27T12:03:15Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-26 |