CVE-2026-53612

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53612
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-53612.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-53612
Aliases
  • GHSA-g8wm-75wr-g2vh
Downstream
ALPINE (1)
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
ECHO (1)
OESA (3)
openSUSE (2)
SUSE (7)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (2)
SUSE (7)
Published
2026-10-14T14:47:25Z
Modified
2026-10-15T10:30:47Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
util-linux mount hook_owner TOCTOU allows local privilege escalation
Details

util-linux is a random collection of Linux utilities. In util-linux 2.39 through 2.41.4 and 2.42 through 2.42.1, the SUID mount utility's hook_owner.c post-mount hook performs path-based chmod() and lchown() operations on a previously validated mount target. A local low-privileged user authorized by an /etc/fstab entry with user or users and an X-mount.mode, X-mount.owner, or X-mount.group option can use renameat2(RENAME_EXCHANGE) to race a writable ancestor of the target and redirect the privileged ownership or mode change to a root-owned path, potentially gaining root privileges. This issue is fixed in 2.41.5 and 2.42.2.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-367"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/53xxx/CVE-2026-53612.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/util-linux/util-linux

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux
Events
Introduced
2dccaae42bfdd0f1e34da11f2023480655308e1b
Fixed
230de59ffbee328506d92d3534e66d56de1afe5d
Introduced
0a7dfc376192e8fb1e7bdb2d0c90d8b9b173a42b
Fixed
f44509230b9f8224993b8c6157f85888359a64e1
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "2.39"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "2.41.5"
        },
        {
            "introduced":  "2.42"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "2.42.2"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

v2.*
v2.41
v2.41-rc1
v2.41-rc2
v2.41.1
v2.41.2
v2.41.2-rc1
v2.41.3
v2.41.4
v2.42
v2.42-rc1
v2.42-rc2
v2.42-start
v2.42.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-53612.json"