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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-4878"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-09T14:49:02.942Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-14T19:09:01.922Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-4878"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-4878.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-4878"
title: "Libcap: libcap: privilege escalation via toctou race condition in cap_set_file()"
summary: "A flaw was found in libcap. A local unprivileged user can exploit a Time-of-check-to-time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition in the `cap_set_file()` function. This allows an attacker with write access to a parent directory to redirect file capability updates to an attacker-controlled file. By doing so, capabilities can be injected into or stripped from unintended executables, leading to privilege escalation."
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