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vifm — security advisory
Vifm 0.8.1-beta through 0.14.4 reuses a pre-existing IPC FIFO in the shared temporary directory without checking ownership, allowing local users to execute commands as another user. Attackers can pre-create a world-writable vifm-ipc-vifm FIFO and write IPC packets with -c and ! shell commands that execute with the victim's privileges.
- Products
- vifm
- Affected versions
- 0.10.1-2, 0.10.1-3, 0.10.1-4, 0.12-1, 0.12-1build1, 0.12-1build2, 0.14-3, 0.14.3-1, 0.14.3-3, 0.14.4-1, 0.7.8-3, 0.7.8-3build1, 0.9-1, 0.9.1-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-110237
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 02:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Vifm 0.8.1-beta through 0.14.4 reuses a pre-existing IPC FIFO in the shared temporary directory without checking ownership, allowing local users to execute commands as another user. Attackers can pre-create a world-writable vifm-ipc-vifm FIFO and write IPC packets with -c and ! shell commands that execute with the victim's privileges.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2026-110237
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Complete source record
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