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Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-19079

CVE-2026-19079

Medium
Open
TLP:CLEAR

Policycoreutils: policycoreutils: toctou race condition in fixfiles allows arbitrary selinux label manipulation

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Description

A TOCTOU (Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use) race condition vulnerability was found in the fixfiles script in policycoreutils. When running fixfiles relabel or fixfiles restore, the script used find and chcon commands to locate and relabel unlabeled files under /tmp and other directories. A local attacker could exploit a race window between the file discovery and the label change operation by swapping directory components with symlinks, causing chcon to follow the symlink and modify SELinux labels on arbitrary system files. This could undermine SELinux mandatory access control protections on critical files such as /etc/shadow.

Details

CVSS Score
4.4
EPSS Score
0.08%

0.3th percentile

CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Confidence
90%
Published
Aug 7, 2026
Last Modified
Aug 21, 2026
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