CVE-2025-9810

medium

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.

References

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-09-01

Updated: 2026-04-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.8

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