CVE-2026-85092
LiME through 1.12.0 Arbitrary File Overwrite via Symlink Following
MEDIUM 5.2EPSS 0.2%
LiME through 1.12.0 fails to validate the disk acquisition output path and does not use O_NOFOLLOW when opening the operator-supplied path parameter, allowing unprivileged local users to overwrite arbitrary root-owned files. An attacker who controls the output directory can create a symbolic link with the expected filename pointing to any root-owned file, and when the acquisition runs in kernel context, LiME follows the link and truncates the target file with the memory acquisition stream.
- Affected
- jtsylve · LiME
- CVSS v4.0 VulnCheck
- 5.2 MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - CVSS v3.1 VulnCheck
- 6.6 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 5th percentile
- Published
- 2026-09-03