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CVE-2026-112940

HIGHCVSS 7.1NVD feed

Published 20 October 2026 · tracked since 21 October 2026

Description

filelock is a platform-independent file lock for Python. From 3.20.4 until 4.2.1, ReadWriteLock let SQLite reopen the database and side files by name; on POSIX systems an attacker with rename access in a non-sticky parent can swap those names to cause overwrite or unlink operations, while a writable

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