Medium 6.6Published Oct 16, 2026

CVE-2026-111802Nautilus: nautilus: arbitrary file deletion via trash symlink

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 05:50 UTC)

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A flaw was found in Nautilus. When a removable drive or disk image is unmounted or ejected, Nautilus prompts the user to empty the trash without verifying whether the trash directory paths are symbolic links. An attacker can exploit this flaw by tricking a user into mounting a crafted storage volume and confirming the prompt to empty the trash, leading to the arbitrary deletion of files accessible to that user.

CVSS: 6.6 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-59
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: redhat
NVD analysis: Received
Record last updated: Oct 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 16, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 redhat:enterprise_linux	10	CNA record

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-111802vdb-entry, x-refsource-redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2554410issue-tracking, x-refsource-redhat
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/2179

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