# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80663"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:49:06.882Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:26:32.045Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-80663"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80663.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80663"
title: "tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Harden daemon pidfile open"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Harden daemon pidfile open\n\nAvoid symlink-based pidfile clobbering by opening the pidfile with\nO_NOFOLLOW and validating it with fstat() before locking/writing.\n\nThe daemon currently uses a fixed pidfile path under /tmp. A local\nunprivileged user can pre-create a symlink at that path and cause a\nroot-run daemon instance to write into an attacker-chosen file."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7fd786dfbd2c55ddee3b87f33c82f1c58bdb1dd6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"905493a6338c82a70da16f86e0a6215db5a3d73d"},{"version":"7fd786dfbd2c55ddee3b87f33c82f1c58bdb1dd6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db938eb9a3c1317596c28e94413b33426508d51b"},{"version":"7fd786dfbd2c55ddee3b87f33c82f1c58bdb1dd6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"72a07abc6b9046f07a08bba353cad7667bcc9dce"},{"version":"7fd786dfbd2c55ddee3b87f33c82f1c58bdb1dd6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"19ffeb30fdfce63f8d6aca71bcdddb3f69d46278"},{"version":"7fd786dfbd2c55ddee3b87f33c82f1c58bdb1dd6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8adac69d1bdf035ef97cc914e845acd4ef08e28"},{"version":"7fd786dfbd2c55ddee3b87f33c82f1c58bdb1dd6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"607af438e6430893a822964c841a1994b33acccc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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