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CVE-2026-54370

acl < 2.4.0 TOCTOU Symlink Traversal via getfacl/setfacl/chacl

CVSS 7.2 HIGHCWE-367
Vexday Risk Score
18Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 7.2EPSS KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch referenciado
Lifecycle
29 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
acl before version 2.4.0 contains a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by replacing a pathname component with a symbolic link between an lstat() check and subsequent symlink-following operations such as stat(), chown(), chmod(), acl_get_file(), and acl_set_file(). Attackers who control a pathname component can redirect file access control list operations to arbitrary files when getfacl, setfacl, or chacl is invoked by a privileged process over an attacker-controlled path, resulting in local privilege escalation.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
acl project · acl

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