5.8

CVE-2026-59676: Local File Deletion Attack Vector in rm_rf() in seunshare

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-59676DEBIAN-CVE-2026-59676
Published 23-07-2026Last modified 23-07-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-59676 is a medium (CVSS 5.8) vulnerability in selinuxproject selinux. EPSS estimates a 0.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 0.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.8, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.8/10
010
Medium · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.10%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
RHSA-2026:44343

Timeline

  1. 23-07-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-07-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in seunshare of selinux policycoreutils allows a user calling seunshare that is running in the unconfined SELinux domain to delete arbitrary root-owned files, This issue affects policycoreutils through 3.10.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.10%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

1%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.10% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Debian2 products
  • policycoreutils< 2.7-1
  • selinux-python< 3.7-1
Selinuxproject1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • selinux-pythonAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 4 products

References

5 links