Gvfs: gvfs-admin socket ownership race permits local root
cve-program · CVE-2026-88924
PublishedA 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.
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CVE-2026-88924 · CVE overview and exploitation status
cve-program · CVE-2026-88924
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:73998
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74370
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:85939
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:85941
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:85942
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:85944
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:98513
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:98623
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-88924
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2531456
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/issues/875
Related changes
Linked by CVE identifier- Gvfs: gvfs-admin socket ownership race permits local root · Affected-version evidence changed · 11 Nov 2026
- Gvfs: gvfs-admin socket ownership race permits local root · Affected-version evidence changed · 11 Nov 2026
- Gvfs: gvfs-admin socket ownership race permits local root · Affected-version evidence changed · 5 Nov 2026