# CVE-2026-35352: uutils coreutils mkfifo Privilege Escalation via TOCTOU Race Condition

- Also known as: GHSA-9GH9-HWPR-RVQQ
- Severity: CVSS 7.0 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-04-22 · Updated: 2026-05-04

## Affected

- coreutils: version range not reported
- coreutils (crates.io): through 0.8.0

## Description

A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition exists in the mkfifo utility of uutils coreutils. The utility creates a FIFO and then performs a path-based chmod to set permissions. A local attacker with write access to the parent directory can swap the newly created FIFO for a symbolic link between these two operations. This redirects the chmod call to an arbitrary file, potentially enabling privilege escalation if the utility is run with elevated privileges.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10020

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