CVE-2025-9810

TOCTOU  in linenoiseHistorySave in linenoise allows local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files and change permissions via a symlink race between fopen("w") on the history path and subsequent chmod() on the same path.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - 96148269-fe82-4198-b1bf-3a73ce8bc92e

Published

2025-09-01

Last modified

2026-04-22

Weaknesses

CWE-367

Affected products

• Linenoise (Antirez)

References

• https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/blob/master/linenoise.c#L1321
• https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/pull/202
• https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/blob/4111f1d6cd29e136b4e86a25d1dd859a1e00813b/linenoise.c#L1321
• https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/commit/f2558e1e588b1ba384ec73a2cf5c9a46409753db