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Permalink CVE-2026-57966
4.4 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Privileges Required (PR): High (H)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): None (N)
  • Integrity (I): High (H)
  • Availability (A): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): High (H)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): None (N)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): High (H)
  • Modified Availability (MA): None (N)
created 2 months ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion
Spice-vdagent: path traversal in file transfer via unsanitized filename

A path traversal vulnerability was found in spice-vdagent. This flaw allows a malicious or compromised SPICE host to write arbitrary files to any location on the guest operating system. This occurs because the filename provided by the SPICE host during file transfers is not properly sanitized before being used. An attacker could exploit this to write to sensitive locations with the privileges of the spice-vdagent process, typically the logged-in user. This issue requires the SPICE host to be untrusted or compromised for exploitation.

References

Affected products

spice-vdagent
mingw-spice-vdagent

Matching in nixpkgs

Permalink CVE-2026-11979
1.8 LOW
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): Present (P)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): Active (A)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): Present (P)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): Active (A)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
created 2 months ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion
Stack-Based Buffer Overflow in libxml2

libxml2 is vulnerable to multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the xmlcatalog utility when running in --shell mode. The usershell() function processes user input using fixed-size stack buffers without proper bounds checking. By supplying an overly long input line, an attacker can overflow internal buffers (command, arg, and argv) during input parsing. This results in memory corruption within the stack frame. Successful exploitation may cause a crash or potentially allow arbitrary code execution in the context of the xmlcatalog process. This issue has been fixed in the commit c2e233fc. NOTE: The maintainers of this project did not agree that this issue is a vulnerability and considered it a bug.

Affected products

libxml2
  • =<2.15.3

Matching in nixpkgs

Permalink CVE-2026-57999
7.7 HIGH
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): Present (P)
  • Privileges Required (PR): Low (L)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): High (H)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): High (H)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): High (H)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): Present (P)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): Low (L)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): High (H)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): High (H)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): High (H)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
created 2 months ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion
luci-app-tailscale-community - Command Injection via tailscale.do_login RPC

luci-app-tailscale-community contains a command injection vulnerability in the tailscale.do_login RPC method that allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands as root. The vulnerability exists because user-controlled loginserver and loginserver_authkey parameters are improperly quoted within a double-quoted shell command, allowing shell substitutions like $() to be evaluated by the outer shell before argument processing.

Affected products

luci
  • =<0.11.1

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.lucide

Open-source icon library that provides 1000+ icons

  • nixos-unstable -
  • nixos-26.05 -

pkgs.lucida-downloader

Multithreaded client for downloading music for free with lucida

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 0.8.0
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 0.8.0

pkgs.haskellPackages.lucid-extras

Generate more HTML with Lucid - Bootstrap, Rdash, Vega-Lite, Leaflet JS, Email

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 0.2.2
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 0.2.2
Permalink CVE-2026-13595
6.8 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): Low (L)
  • Integrity (I): None (N)
  • Availability (A): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): Low (L)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): None (N)
  • Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
created 2 months ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion
Util-linux: util-linux: heap use-after-free in libblkid nested partition probing

A flaw was found in the libblkid library of util-linux. During nested partition probing, the BSD, Minix, Solaris x86, and UnixWare partition probers cache a raw pointer to a parent partition entry in a dynamically allocated array. When subsequent partition additions cause the array to be reallocated, this pointer becomes stale, leading to a heap use-after-free read. An attacker who can present a crafted block device image (for example, via USB insertion or a loop-mounted disk image) can trigger this flaw without user interaction, as libblkid is invoked automatically by udev/udisks as root on block-device hot-plug events. This could lead to limited information disclosure or denial of service.

Affected products

rhcos
util-linux

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.more

None

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 2.42
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 2.42

pkgs.wall

None

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 2.42
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 2.42

pkgs.eject

None

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 2.42
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 2.42

pkgs.mount

None

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 2.42
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 2.42

pkgs.logger

None

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 2.42
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 2.42

pkgs.umount

None

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 2.42
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 2.42

pkgs.hexdump

None

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 2.42
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 2.42

pkgs.libuuid

Set of system utilities for Linux

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 2.42
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 2.42

pkgs.utillinux

Set of system utilities for Linux

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 2.42
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 2.42

pkgs.util-linux

Set of system utilities for Linux

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 2.42
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 2.42

pkgs.libsmartcols

Set of system utilities for Linux

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 2.42
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 2.42

pkgs.unixtools.col

None

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 2.42
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 2.42

pkgs.util-linuxMinimal

Set of system utilities for Linux

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 2.42
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 2.42
Permalink CVE-2026-13593
6.5 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): Low (L)
  • Integrity (I): Low (L)
  • Availability (A): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): Low (L)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): Low (L)
  • Modified Availability (MA): None (N)
created 2 months ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion
CSS::Minifier::XS versions before 0.14 for Perl have a memory leak when the entire document is minified away

CSS::Minifier::XS versions before 0.14 for Perl have a memory leak when the entire document is minified away. The minify function has a memory leak when processing a document containing only characters to be removed, such as comments and whitespace.

Affected products

CSS-Minifier-XS
  • <0.14

Matching in nixpkgs

Permalink CVE-2026-58056
7.2 HIGH
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
  • Privileges Required (PR): Low (L)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): Low (L)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): High (H)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): Low (L)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): Low (L)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): High (H)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
created 2 months ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion
RustDesk - FileTransfer Session Authorization Scope Bypass

RustDesk gates incoming control messages on per-capability flags rather than on the session's authorized connection type, and a file-transfer session does not clear those flags. A peer holding only a valid FileTransfer authorization can inject keyboard and mouse input and reach the unguarded screenshot and display-capture handlers, acting outside its granted scope.

References

Affected products

RustDesk
  • =<ff226f6d8013dee2de5a6553abaf67bf32b3e875

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.rustdesk

Virtual / remote desktop infrastructure for everyone! Open source TeamViewer / Citrix alternative

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 1.4.7
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 1.4.7

pkgs.rustdesk-flutter

Virtual / remote desktop infrastructure for everyone! Open source TeamViewer / Citrix alternative

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 1.4.5
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 1.4.5
Permalink CVE-2026-57945
5.3 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
  • Privileges Required (PR): Low (L)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): Low (L)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): Low (L)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): Low (L)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): None (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
created 2 months ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion
PhotoPrism - Unauthorized User Profile Modification via PUT /api/v1/users/{uid} Endpoint

PhotoPrism before 260601-a7d098548 contains a broken access control vulnerability that allows authenticated non-admin users to modify other users' profile information by sending requests to arbitrary user endpoints. Attackers can exploit the missing session-to-user identifier validation in the PUT users API endpoint to overwrite another user's profile details without authorization.

Affected products

photoprism
  • <260601-a7d098548

Matching in nixpkgs

Permalink CVE-2026-57946
6.3 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): High (H)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): Low (L)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): Low (L)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): None (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
created 2 months ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion
Invidious - Private Playlist Disclosure via Unauthenticated RSS Feed Endpoint

Invidious before version 2.20260626.0 contains a broken access control vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to retrieve private playlist contents by accessing the RSS feed playlist endpoint without authentication. Attackers can supply a playlist ID to the feed endpoint to obtain the full playlist contents, owner email address, and associated video entries without any authentication.

References

Affected products

Invidious
  • <2.20260626.0

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.invidious-router

Go application that routes requests to different Invidious instances based on their health status and (optional) response time

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 1.2
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 1.2

pkgs.kodiPackages.invidious

Privacy-friendly way of watching YouTube content

  • nixos-unstable -
    • nixos-unstable-small 0.2.6
  • nixos-26.05 -
    • nixos-26.05-small 0.2.6
Permalink CVE-2026-10648
6.2 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): None (N)
  • Integrity (I): None (N)
  • Availability (A): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): None (N)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): None (N)
  • Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
created 2 months ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion
NULL-pointer dereference in MCUmgr serial/console SMP transport on buffer-pool exhaustion

mcumgr_serial_process_frag() in subsys/mgmt/mcumgr/transport/src/serial_util.c calls net_buf_reset() on the result of smp_packet_alloc() before checking it for NULL. smp_packet_alloc() uses net_buf_alloc(K_NO_WAIT) against the shared MCUmgr packet pool (CONFIG_MCUMGR_TRANSPORT_NETBUF_COUNT, default 4), which returns NULL when the pool is exhausted. In default builds the __ASSERT_NO_MSG in net_buf_reset is a no-op, so net_buf_simple_reset writes through the NULL pointer (buf->len = 0; buf->data = buf->__buf), causing a fault/crash. The fragment data reaches this code from attacker-controlled bytes on the MCUmgr serial/UART/shell-console transports (smp_uart.c, smp_raw_uart.c, smp_shell.c), and a fresh buffer is allocated at the start of essentially every new packet. An attacker on the serial/console link can flood the transport to drive the 4-entry buffer pool to exhaustion and induce the NULL dereference, crashing the device (denial of service). The defect was introduced after the original MCUmgr rework and shipped in Zephyr v4.4.0. The fix moves the NULL check ahead of net_buf_reset.

References

Affected products

zephyr
  • <4.5.0

Matching in nixpkgs

Permalink CVE-2026-41991
2.0 LOW
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): High (H)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): Present (P)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): Passive (P)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): Low (L)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): Present (P)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): Passive (P)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): Low (L)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): None (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
created 2 months ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion
Predictable Temporary File in GNU gzip

GNU gzip contains a vulnerability in the gzexe utility related to insecure temporary file handling. When the mktemp utility is not available in the user’s PATH, gzexe falls back to constructing a temporary file path based solely on the process ID (PID). This predictable filename is created without exclusive access or existence checks. A local attacker can pre‑create the predicted temporary file path as a symbolic link pointing to an arbitrary file writable by the victim. When gzexe runs, it follows the symlink and overwrites the target file, resulting in a time‑of‑check to time‑of‑use (TOCTOU) condition that allows arbitrary file overwrite. This issue has been fixed in the commit 4e6f8b24ab823146ab8776f0b7fe486ab34d4269

Affected products

gzip
  • =<1.14

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.gzip

GNU zip compression program

  • nixos-unstable 1.14
    • nixpkgs-unstable 1.14
    • nixos-unstable-small 1.14
  • nixos-26.05 1.14
    • nixos-26.05-small 1.14
    • nixpkgs-26.05-darwin 1.14

pkgs.rapidgzip

Python library for parallel decompression and seeking within compressed gzip files