GHSA-m976-87wm-48fmMediumCVSS 6.3
uutils coreutils has a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition exists in the mv utility of uutils coreutils during cross-device operations. The utility removes the destination path before recreating it through a copy operation. A local attacker with write access to the destination directory can exploit this window to replace the destination with a symbolic link. The subsequent privileged move operation will follow the symlink, allowing the attacker to redirect the write and overwrite an arbitrary target file with contents from the source.
🎯 Affected products1
- rust/coreutils:<= 0.8.0