Race Condition within a Thread Affecting coreutils package, versions [,6.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-COREUTILS-2319193
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed2 May 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 May 2005

CVE-2005-1039  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-366  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade coreutils to version 6.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition within a Thread. Race condition in Core Utilities (coreutils) 5.2.1, when (1) mkdir, (2) mknod, or (3) mkfifo is running with the -m switch, allows local users to modify permissions of other files.

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CVSS Base Scores

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