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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.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
coreutilscrates.io
<= 0.8.0

Affected products

1

Patches

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