CVE-2014-1624

pyxdg: TOCTOU race condition in get_runtime_dir() when strict=False

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · January 21, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

Race condition in the xdg.BaseDirectory.get_runtime_dir function in python-xdg 0.25 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by pre-creating /tmp/pyxdg-runtime-dir-fallback-victim to point to a victim-owned location, then replacing it with a symlink to an attacker-controlled location once the get_runtime_dir function is called.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 3.3
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWE-367 · Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition