NIXPKGS-2026-2376
GitHub issue
published 8 hours ago
Policycoreutils: policycoreutils: toctou race condition in fixfiles allows arbitrary selinux label manipulation
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CVE-2026-19079
4.4 MEDIUM
- CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
- Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
- Attack Complexity (AC): High (H)
- Privileges Required (PR): Low (L)
- User Interaction (UI): Required (R)
- Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
- Confidentiality (C): None (N)
- Integrity (I): High (H)
- Availability (A): None (N)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): High (H)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): Low (L)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): Required (R)
- Modified Confidentiality (MC): None (N)
- Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
- Modified Integrity (MI): High (H)
- Modified Availability (MA): None (N)
by @LeSuisse Activity log
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- @LeSuisse accepted
- @LeSuisse published on GitHub
Policycoreutils: policycoreutils: toctou race condition in fixfiles allows arbitrary selinux label manipulation
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.
References
Affected products
rhcos
policycoreutils
policycoreutils-main
- *
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.policycoreutils
SELinux policy core utilities
Package maintainers
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@RossComputerGuy Tristan Ross <tristan.ross@midstall.com>
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@numinit Morgan Jones <me+nixpkgs@numin.it>