4.7 MEDIUM
- CVSS version: 3.1
- Attack vector (AV): LOCAL
- Attack complexity (AC): HIGH
- Privileges required (PR): LOW
- User interaction (UI): NONE
- Scope (S): UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality impact (C): NONE
- Integrity impact (I): HIGH
- Availability impact (A): NONE
Activity log
- Created suggestion
uutils coreutils mv Security Xattr TOCTOU Race in Cross-Device
A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability exists in the mv utility of uutils coreutils during cross-device moves. The extended attribute (xattr) preservation logic uses multiple path-based system calls that perform fresh path-to-inode lookups for each operation. A local attacker with write access to the directory can exploit this race to swap files between calls, causing the destination file to receive an inconsistent mix of security xattrs, such as SELinux labels or file capabilities.
References
Affected products
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.coreutils
GNU Core Utilities
pkgs.coreutils-full
GNU Core Utilities
pkgs.policycoreutils
SELinux policy core utilities
pkgs.uutils-coreutils
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
pkgs.coreutils-prefixed
GNU Core Utilities
pkgs.uutils-coreutils-noprefix
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
pkgs.minimal-bootstrap.coreutils
The GNU Core Utilities
pkgs.selinuxPackages.policycoreutils
SELinux policy core utilities
pkgs.minimal-bootstrap.coreutils-musl
The GNU Core Utilities
pkgs.minimal-bootstrap.coreutils-static
The GNU Core Utilities
Package maintainers
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@dasJ Janne Heß <janne@hess.ooo>
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@mdaniels5757 Michael Daniels <nix@mdaniels.me>
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@infinisil Silvan Mosberger <contact@infinisil.com>
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@pyrox0 Pyrox <pyrox@pyrox.dev>
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@balsoft Alexander Bantyev <balsoft75@gmail.com>
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@siraben Siraphob Phipathananunth <bensiraphob@gmail.com>
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@Gskartwii Aleksi Hannula <ahannula4@gmail.com>
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@06kellyjac Jack <hello+nixpkgs@j-k.io>
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@emilytrau Emily Trau <emily+nix@downunderctf.com>
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@Ericson2314 John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
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@Artturin Artturi N <artturin@artturin.com>
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@alejandrosame Alejandro Sánchez Medina <alejandrosanchzmedina@gmail.com>
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@RossComputerGuy Tristan Ross <tristan.ross@midstall.com>
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@numinit Morgan Jones <me+nixpkgs@numin.it>
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@matthiasbeyer Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>
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@GaetanLepage Gaetan Lepage <gaetan@glepage.com>