> USN-7999-1: Filelock vulnerabilities
[DATE: 02/02/2026 20:26]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
It was discovered that Filelock incorrectly handled symlinks in temp files.
A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause lock operations to
fail or behave unexpectedly. (CVE-2026-22701)
It was discovered that the file locking implementation in the Filelock
package contained a race condition. A local attacker could possibly use
this to cause a denial of service or corrupt arbitrary user files.
(CVE-2025-68146)