High
Security advisory
Firejail before 0.9.64.4 allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions because there is a TOCTOU race condition between a stat operation and an OverlayFS mount operation.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-26910
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Firejail before 0.9.64.4 allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions because there is a TOCTOU race condition between a stat operation and an OverlayFS mount operation.
osv:CVE-2021-26910
Complete source record
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"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00015.html",
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-19",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4849",
"https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/commit/97d8a03cad19501f017587cc4e47d8418273834b",
"https://unparalleled.eu/blog/2021/20210208-rigged-race-against-firejail-for-local-root/",
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