CVE-2025-9810 – “OpenBSD Linonoise TOCTOU File Overwrite Vulnerability”

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-9810 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution
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impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by 96148269-fe82-4198-b1bf-3a73ce8bc92e

    Sep. 01, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description TOCTOU  in linenoiseHistorySave in linenoise allows local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files and change permissions via a symlink race between fopen(“w”) on the history path and subsequent chmod() on the same path.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
    Added CWE CWE-367
    Added Reference https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/blob/master/linenoise.c#L1321
    Added Reference https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/pull/202
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