GHSA-m26v-hjq3-x245: Duplicate Advisory: uutils coreutils has a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition
### Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-gwm6-q8ch-hcfr. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ### Original Description A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability exists in the install utility of uutils coreutils when using the -D flag. The command creates parent directories and subsequently performs a second path resolution to create the target file, neither of which is anchored to a directory file descriptor. An attacker with concurrent write access can replace a path component with a symbolic link between these operations, redirecting the privileged write to an arbitrary file system location.
GHSA-m26v-hjq3-x245: Duplicate Advisory: uutils coreutils has a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition
Description
### Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-gwm6-q8ch-hcfr. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ### Original Description A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability exists in the install utility of uutils coreutils when using the -D flag. The command creates parent directories and subsequently performs a second path resolution to create the target file, neither of which is anchored to a directory file descriptor. An attacker with concurrent write access can replace a path component with a symbolic link between these operations, redirecting the privileged write to an arbitrary file system location.
CVSS v3.1
Affected software
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Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Osv Id
- GHSA-m26v-hjq3-x245
- Osv Schema Version
- 1.4.0
- Aliases
- []
- Ecosystems
- ["crates.io"]
- Database Specific Severity
- MODERATE
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
Threat ID: 6a4c341a27e9c797195f83fd
Added to database: 07/06/2026, 23:02:50 UTC
Last updated: 07/06/2026, 23:02:50 UTC
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