CVE-2026-85092

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.

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Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS base score
6.6
CVSS vector
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
EPSS probability
0.15%
CWE
CWE-59
Published
2026-09-03
Last modified
2026-09-03

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