filelock is a platform-independent file lock for Python. From 4.1.0 until 4.2.1, SoftFileLock can restore a stale marker by name after moving it aside, allowing another local user with rename access in a non-sticky lock directory to swap in a symbolic link and, on a runtime that follows the link and a same-filesystem target, make the lock user hard-link one of its files into the lock directory. This issue is fixed in version 4.2.1.
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| Description | filelock is a platform-independent file lock for Python. From 4.1.0 until 4.2.1, SoftFileLock can restore a stale marker by name after moving it aside, allowing another local user with rename access in a non-sticky lock directory to swap in a symbolic link and, on a runtime that follows the link and a same-filesystem target, make the lock user hard-link one of its files into the lock directory. This issue is fixed in version 4.2.1. | |
| Title | filelock: SoftFileLock stale-break restore follows a swapped-in symbolic link and hard-links a file of the user running the lock into the lock directory | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-363 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-20T14:26:18.813Z
Reserved: 2026-10-19T20:16:09.858Z
Link: CVE-2026-112914
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-20T15:17:15.810
Modified: 2026-10-20T15:17:15.810
Link: CVE-2026-112914
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Updated: 2026-10-20T16:30:06Z
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