Medium 5.8Published Mar 30, 2026

CVE-2026-25704A Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors/Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in cosmic-greeter can allow an attacker to regain privileges that should have been dropped and a…

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 08:20 UTC)

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A Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors/Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in cosmic-greeter can allow an attacker to regain privileges that should have been dropped and abuse them in the racy checking logic. This issue affects cosmic-greeter before https://github.Com/pop-os/cosmic-greeter/pull/426.

CVSS: 5.8 MEDIUM (v4.0, NVD)CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Weakness (CWE): CWE-271, CWE-367
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated: Jun 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

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References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-25704
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/16/3

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