A Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors/Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in  cosmic-greeter can allow an attacker to regain privileges that should have been dropped and abuse them in the racy checking logic. This issue affects cosmic-greeter before https://github.Com/pop-os/cosmic-greeter/pull/426.
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Description A Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors/Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in  cosmic-greeter can allow an attacker to regain privileges that should have been dropped and abuse them in the racy checking logic. This issue affects cosmic-greeter before https://github.Com/pop-os/cosmic-greeter/pull/426.
Title Incomplete privilege drop for com.system76.CosmicGreeter.GetUserData
Weaknesses CWE-271
CWE-367
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: suse

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-30T07:44:39.672Z

Reserved: 2026-02-05T15:37:24.184Z

Link: CVE-2026-25704

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-30T08:16:16.990

Modified: 2026-03-30T08:16:16.990

Link: CVE-2026-25704

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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