Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Affecting gvfs-tests package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GVFSTESTS-19759897
  • published13 Sept 2026
  • disclosed9 Sept 2026

Introduced: 9 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-88924  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-367  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 gvfs-tests.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gvfs-tests package and not the gvfs-tests package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in the admin backend of gvfs. The privileged gvfsd-admin daemon changes the ownership of newly created private D-Bus sockets by calling the link-following chown() function on a pathname inside a user-controlled directory. A local attacker can exploit this via a Time-of-Check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition and exchange the socket pathname with a symbolic link pointing to an arbitrary root-owned file (such as /etc/pam.d/su). The daemon subsequently follows the symlink and changes the ownership of the targeted root-owned file to the attacker's user ID. This allows an authenticated local attacker to modify critical system files, leading to a full local privilege escalation to root.

CVSS Base Scores

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