CVE-2026-91205

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.06.0
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 6.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: MODERATE) published 2026-09-18. A secondary CVSS source baseline 6.0; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — Patch released this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-83291 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-5jj9-v4xp-h5h5 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

6.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.1%CVSS: 6.0Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in cockpit-files. A local unprivileged attacker can exploit a race condition during directory creation with owner assignment. By controlling a writable parent directory, the attacker can replace a newly created directory with a symbolic link (symlink) before the ownership change operation (chown) is applied. This allows the attacker to redirect the ownership change to an arbitrary file, potentially leading to information disclosure or unauthorized modification of sensitive files.

CVSS v3
6.0
EG Score
6.0MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
27
EG Risk 27/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity60% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 6.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.1% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.1%
EPSS %ILE
1st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (6.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 6.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
6.0 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.1% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-10). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 18, 2026

Last Modified

November 11, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Sep 18, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red Hat

2466442 – (CVE-2026-91205) CVE-2026-91205 cockpit-files: cockpit-files: Local attacker can hijack file ownership via symlink race

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2466442
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-91205 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-91205

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-91205(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatcockpit-files-0:43.1-1.el10_32026-11-11redhat
redhatcockpit-files-0:36.1-1.el10_22026-11-05redhat
redhatcockpit-files-0:36.1-1.el9_82026-10-19redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
cockpit-files36-1 ... 45-1~bpo13+1 (11 versions)
  • every version up to 45-1: fixed in 45-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(2)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 12× in last 7d / 41× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 130 rows on record for this CVE, as 99 entries (1 repeat merged).

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 30 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  5. 2026-11-11 13:28 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-11-11 13:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jj9-v4xp-h5h5 · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 6.0
  7. 2026-11-11 13:06 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  8. 2026-11-11 13:06 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-11-11 13:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jj9-v4xp-h5h5 · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 6.0
  10. 2026-11-11 12:28 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-11 12:28 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-11-11 12:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jj9-v4xp-h5h5 · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 6.0
  13. 2026-11-11 11:39 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  14. 2026-11-11 11:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jj9-v4xp-h5h5 · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 6.0
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  19. 2026-11-06 06:09 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-11-06 06:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jj9-v4xp-h5h5 · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 6.0
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  22. 2026-11-06 02:27 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-11-06 02:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jj9-v4xp-h5h5 · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 6.0
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  19. 2026-10-19 04:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jj9-v4xp-h5h5 · GitHub CVSS 6.0
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  45. 2026-10-09 04:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jj9-v4xp-h5h5 · GitHub CVSS 6.0
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  48. 2026-10-08 03:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jj9-v4xp-h5h5 · GitHub CVSS 6.0
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  57. 2026-10-05 02:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jj9-v4xp-h5h5 · GitHub CVSS 6.0
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  67. 2026-10-01 01:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jj9-v4xp-h5h5 · GitHub CVSS 6.0
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-91205?
CVE-2026-91205 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 18, 2026. A flaw was found in cockpit-files. A local unprivileged attacker can exploit a race condition during directory creation with owner assignment. By controlling a writable parent directory, the attacker can replace a newly created directory with a symbolic link (symlink) before the ownership change…
When was CVE-2026-91205 made public?
CVE-2026-91205 was made public on September 18, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on September 18, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 11, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-91205 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-91205 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (1st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-91205?
CVE-2026-91205 has a CVSS base score of 6.0 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-91205?
A fix for CVE-2026-91205 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-91205 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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