CVE-2025-9810

Published: Sep 1, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026

5.8

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L

Exploitability: 1.0 / Impact: 4.7

Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Antirez: Linenoise

Antirez

1 product

Linenoise

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Antirez Linenoise	All versions

Related CWEs

CWE-367

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the product to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state.

References (4)

https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/blob/master/linenoise.c#L1321

Source: 96148269-fe82-4198-b1bf-3a73ce8bc92e

Product

https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/pull/202

Source: 96148269-fe82-4198-b1bf-3a73ce8bc92e

Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/blob/4111f1d6cd29e136b4e86a25d1dd859a1e00813b/linenoise.c#L1321

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/commit/f2558e1e588b1ba384ec73a2cf5c9a46409753db

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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