CVE-2026-112906
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
filelock is a platform-independent file lock for Python. From 4.1.0 until 4.2.1, SoftFileLock versions from 4.1.0 can reuse a stale observation when an attacker pre-dates and removes its own marker, at least two lock-user processes are waiting, coarse or matching modification times preserve the observation, and an honest contender creates a fresh marker on the reused inode, causing that live marker to be removed as stale. This issue is fixed in version 4.2.1.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
4.7
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-20 15:17:15.163000
Last modified
2026-10-27 21:06:04.367000
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