VYPR
High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Apr 22, 2026· Updated May 4, 2026

CVE-2026-35352

CVE-2026-35352

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.

AI Insight

LLM-synthesized narrative grounded in this CVE's description and references.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
coreutilscrates.io
<= 0.8.0

Affected products

4

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

6

News mentions

0

No linked articles in our index yet.