Local file overwrite via configuration symlink race
Published Oct 17, 2025 · Updated Oct 17, 2025
TOCTOU in YtGrabber-TUI 1.0 allows local users to overwrite files accessible to the application through a configuration-file symlink race. In Settings.hpp, load_json_settings checks whether config.json exists before create_json_settings writes it, allowing a symlink inserted between those operations to redirect boost::property_tree::write_json to another file. Exploitation requires write access to the Linux configuration directory or Windows working directory and precise timing; the result is file corruption within the process privileges, including system-file corruption when the application runs elevated.
Summary
What happened
TOCTOU in YtGrabber-TUI 1.0 allows local users to overwrite files accessible to the application through a configuration-file symlink race. In Settings.hpp, load_json_settings checks whether config.json exists before create_json_settings writes it, allowing a symlink inserted between those operations to redirect boost::property_tree::write_json to another file. Exploitation requires write access to the Linux configuration directory or Windows working directory and precise timing; the result is file corruption within the process privileges, including system-file corruption when the application runs elevated.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-62511
- Published
- Oct 17, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 17, 2025
- Vendor
- zheny-creator
- Product
- YtGrabber-TUI
- Classifications
- CWE-367, T1565.001
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
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- Oct 17, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 17, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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