CVE-2005-1039: GNU Coreutils

Low severity, CVSS 3.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in Core Utilities (coreutils) 5.2.1, when (1) mkdir, (2) mknod, or (3) mkfifo is running with the -m switch, allows local users to modify permissions of other files.

Affected products

• GNU Coreutils: version 5.2.1 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.