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CVE-2022-48682In deletefiles in FDUPES before 2.2.0, a TOCTOU race condition allows arbitrary file deletion via a symlink.
- 6.0MediumCVSS base score
- 0.19%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 91% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In deletefiles in FDUPES before 2.2.0, a TOCTOU race condition allows arbitrary file deletion via a symlink.
Timeline
Published
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| mitreCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AC:H/AV:L/A:H/C:N/I:H/PR:L/S:U/UI:R |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.19% · top 91% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References4
- https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes/blob/4b6bcde1b3eb1cebe87cd30814f7d6cf4ee46e95/fdupes.c (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes/commit/85680897148f1ac33b55418e00334116e419717f (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1200381 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes/compare/v2.1.2...v2.2.0 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-51377 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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