FKIE_CVE-2025-9810

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-09-01 19:15 - Updated: 2026-04-22 16:16
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
5.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
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.
References
96148269-fe82-4198-b1bf-3a73ce8bc92ehttps://github.com/antirez/linenoise/blob/master/linenoise.c#L1321Product
96148269-fe82-4198-b1bf-3a73ce8bc92ehttps://github.com/antirez/linenoise/pull/202Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/blob/4111f1d6cd29e136b4e86a25d1dd859a1e00813b/linenoise.c#L1321
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/commit/f2558e1e588b1ba384ec73a2cf5c9a46409753db
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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  "lastModified": "2026-04-22T16:16:52.427",
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