Upstream information
Description
A TOCTOU (Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use) race condition vulnerability was found in the fixfiles script in policycoreutils. When running fixfiles relabel or fixfiles restore, the script used find and chcon commands to locate and relabel unlabeled files under /tmp and other directories. A local attacker could exploit a race window between the file discovery and the label change operation by swapping directory components with symlinks, causing chcon to follow the symlink and modify SELinux labels on arbitrary system files. This could undermine SELinux mandatory access control protections on critical files such as /etc/shadow.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Resolved
This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.
| CVSS detail | CNA (Red Hat) | SUSE |
|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 4.4 | 4.4 |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Local | Local |
| Attack Complexity | High | High |
| Privileges Required | Low | Low |
| User Interaction | Required | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact | None | None |
| Integrity Impact | High | High |
| Availability Impact | None | None |
| CVSSv3 Version | 3.1 | 3.1 |
Status of this issue by product and package
Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.
| Product(s) | Source package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Products under general support and receiving all security fixes. | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 | policycoreutils | Released |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 | policycoreutils | Released |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | policycoreutils | Released |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 | policycoreutils | Released |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 | policycoreutils | Released |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 | policycoreutils | Released |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 | policycoreutils | Released |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | policycoreutils | Released |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 | policycoreutils | Released |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 | policycoreutils | Released |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 | policycoreutils | Released |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 | policycoreutils | Released |
| Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes. | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP6 | policycoreutils | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP6 | policycoreutils | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 | policycoreutils | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS | policycoreutils | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 | policycoreutils | Affected |
| Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore. | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 | policycoreutils | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6 | policycoreutils | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | policycoreutils | Released |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4 | policycoreutils | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 | policycoreutils | Affected |
| Container Status | ||
| suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/proxy-httpd suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/proxy-httpd suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/proxy-salt-broker suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server suse/multi-linux-manager/5.2/x86_64/proxy-httpd suse/multi-linux-manager/5.2/x86_64/server suse/sle-micro-rancher/5.4 suse/sle-micro/5.5 suse/sles-16.1-kubevirt-minimal | policycoreutils | In progress |
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Fri Aug 7 17:25:49 2026CVE page last modified: Fri Aug 7 19:31:05 2026