CVE-2025-9810 (GCVE-0-2025-9810)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-01 19:03 – Updated: 2025-09-02 16:13
VLAI?
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)
CWE
- CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Assigner
References
Credits
@disconnect3d
Simcha Kosman
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