# CVE-2026-25704

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-25704
- **Severity:** MEDIUM
- **CVSS Score:** 5.8 (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)
- **CWE:** CWE-271, CWE-367
- **Published:** Mar 30, 2026
- **Last Modified:** Apr 16, 2026

## 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.

## Affected Products

- pop-os — cosmic-greeter (?)

## References

- [CNA](https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-25704)
- [CVE](http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/16/3)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.09%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 0.4

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-10._