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Fencer Vulns
high 7.1

CVE-2026-112940 json

filelock ReadWriteLock: SQLite reopens the lock database by name, so a planted symlink or journal file makes the lock user's process overwrite or unlink its own files

published 2026-10-20 20 d ago modified 2026-10-23 16 d ago also GHSA-v4x8-3wr5-3wq8 , EUVD-2026-105031

cvss
7.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 8%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

filelock is a platform-independent file lock for Python. From 3.20.4 until 4.2.1, ReadWriteLock let SQLite reopen the database and side files by name; on POSIX systems an attacker with rename access in a non-sticky parent can swap those names to cause overwrite or unlink operations, while a writable adjacent hot journal is additionally required for attacker-chosen content overwrites. This issue is fixed in version 4.2.1.

Patch / fix

  • pypi filelock 4.2.1
  • tox-dev filelock 4.2.1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-112940 updated cvss 6.3

filelock: filelock: Arbitrary file overwrite via insecure database file reopening

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Orchestrator 2026 ansible-automation-platform/automation-orchestrator-backend-rhel9
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Exploit Intelligence exploit-intelligence/vulnerability-analysis-rhel9
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Lightspeed Core lightspeed-core/rag-tool-cpu-rhel9, lightspeed-core/lightspeed-stack-rhel9, lightspeed-core/rag-tool-cuda-12.9-rhel9 Red Hat Lightspeed Services for Advanced Cluster Management lightspeed-services-acm/ocp-rules-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-ocp-rag-rhel9, openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-service-api-rhel9, openshift-lightspeed-tech-preview/lightspeed-rag-tool-rhel9
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat AI Inference Server rhaii/vllm-tpu-rhel9, rhaiis/vllm-cpu-rhel9, rhaiis/vllm-tpu-rhel9, rhaiis/vllm-cuda-rhel9, rhaiis/vllm-rocm-rhel9, rhaii/vllm-neuron-rhel9, +3 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 python-filelock 3.8.0-1.el9ap, python3x-filelock 3.8.0-1.el8ap, python3.11-filelock 3.13.1-1.el9ap, python3.12-filelock 3.13.1-2.el9ap, automation-controller 4.5.37-1.el8ap, ansible-automation-platform-26/hub-rhel9, +14 more
    affected: no fix available, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2 ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel9
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-rocm-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gaudi-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-aws-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gcp-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/disk-image-cuda-rhel9, +2 more Red Hat Lightspeed Services for OCP lightspeed-services-ocp/ocp-rules-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-automl-rhel9, rhoai/odh-autorag-rhel9, rhoai/odh-ogx-core-rhel9, rhoai/odh-caikit-nlp-rhel9, rhoai/odh-feature-server-rhel9, rhoai/odh-llm-d-kv-cache-rhel9, +37 more Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/udi-rhel9 Red Hat Satellite 6 satellite/iop-puptoo-rhel9, satellite/iop-yuptoo-rhel9, satellite/iop-advisor-engine-rhel9, satellite/iop-host-inventory-rhel9, satellite/iop-advisor-backend-rhel9, satellite/iop-insights-engine-rhel9
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.5 rhaii/vllm-cpu-rhel9 1793444554, rhaii/vllm-cuda-rhel9 1793444600, rhaii/vllm-rocm-rhel9 1793444456, rhaii/vllm-gaudi-rhel9 1793444510, rhaii/vllm-spyre-rhel9 1793444409, rhaii/model-opt-cuda-rhel9 1793444339
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:94715
show 6 more
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 rhoai/odh-ta-lmes-job-rhel9 1793001715, rhoai/odh-th06-cpu-torch210-py312-rhel9 1793084640, rhoai/odh-th06-rocm64-torch291-py312-rhel9 1792745990, rhoai/odh-th06-cuda130-torch210-py312-rhel9 1792748650
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:92510
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.5 rhai/guidellm-rhel9 1793719302
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:94631
  • Red Hat Pen Drive Powered by Red Hat Lightspeed pen-drive/pen-drive-scanner-rhel9 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-27/lightspeed-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-26/eda-controller-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-27/eda-controller-rhel9 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2 ansible-automation-platform-tech-preview/ee-minimal-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-tech-preview/ee-minimal-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-mlflow-rhel9, rhoai/odh-vllm-gaudi-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-agent-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-router-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-controller-rhel9, rhoai/odh-th06-cpu-torch291-py312-rhel9, +1 more
    not affected: component not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 rhoai/odh-cli-rhel9 1792722177, rhoai/rhai-cli-rhel9 1792722177, rhoai/odh-automl-rhel9 1792697253, rhoai/odh-mlflow-rhel9 1793002327, rhoai/odh-autorag-rhel9 1793265800, rhoai/odh-trainer-rhel9 1792817113, +96 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 python-filelock 3.8.0-1.el9ap
    not affected: component not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
17 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/tox-dev/filelock/security/advisories/GHSA-v4x8-3wr5-3wq8 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi filelock
>=3.20.4, <4.2.1
4.2.1

Affected products

  • tox-dev filelock

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-363 Race Condition Enabling Link Following
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Sources

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