MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-100310 (CVSS 7.3)
NVD · officialPublished Sep 25, 2026Risk 23/100
GNU libextractor before 1.16 loads plugins from an untrusted search path specified by the LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX environment variable without proper privilege checks. A local attacker can exploit this by setting LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX to a directory containing a malicious plugin that executes arbitrary code with elevated privileges when loaded by a setuid or setgid program.
Technical details
CVSS
7.3
AV:LocalAC:LowPR:LowUI:None
Evidence and sources
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