CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-73585
6.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-08-25
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-377
Description
A flaw was found in sblim-cmpi-base. Insecure temporary file creation in the provider registration scripts allows a local unprivileged user to perform a symlink attack. By creating a symlink in a world-writable directory, an attacker can redirect privileged writes to an arbitrary file during script execution in a privileged context. This can lead to the overwrite of root-owned files, potentially disrupting system services or operation. Exploitation is conditional on the script running with elevated privileges and may be mitigated by sticky-directory symlink protections.
Affected configurations
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
• redhat enterprise linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-73585 Vendor Advisory, Mitigation
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2462235 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory