EIP-2026-102838

PRE-CVE

Firejail - Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: legacy
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for EIP-2026-102838. PoCs published by Daniel Hodson.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This is a detailed technical writeup discussing a TOCTOU (Time-of-Check Time-of-Use) race condition vulnerability in Firejail's `--get` and `--put` functionality, which could lead to local privilege escalation. The advisory includes code snippets and explains how the vulnerability was fixed in a specific commit.

Description

Firejail - Local Privilege Escalation

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP
by Daniel Hodson · locallinux
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41022

This is a detailed technical writeup discussing a TOCTOU (Time-of-Check Time-of-Use) race condition vulnerability in Firejail's `--get` and `--put` functionality, which could lead to local privilege escalation. The advisory includes code snippets and explains how the vulnerability was fixed in a specific commit.

Classification
Writeup 95%
Attack Type
Lpe
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Racy
Target: Firejail (version not specified, fixed in commit e152e2d)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Local access to the system · Firejail installed and vulnerable version in use
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 18, 2026 Full analysis →

Details

Status pre_cve
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026