Flameshot is powerful yet simple to use screenshot software. Prior to 14.0.0, the Open With feature wrote screenshots to a predictable temporary path and followed symlinks, creating a time-of-check to time-of-use race that allowed a local unprivileged attacker on the same machine to pre-plant a symlink and cause Flameshot to write PNG data through it, overwriting any file the victim user could write. This issue is fixed in version 14.0.0.
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| Description | Flameshot is powerful yet simple to use screenshot software. Prior to 14.0.0, the Open With feature wrote screenshots to a predictable temporary path and followed symlinks, creating a time-of-check to time-of-use race that allowed a local unprivileged attacker on the same machine to pre-plant a symlink and cause Flameshot to write PNG data through it, overwriting any file the victim user could write. This issue is fixed in version 14.0.0. | |
| Title | Flameshot: OCTOU symlink attack via predictable /tmp path in Flameshot "Open With" | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-362 CWE-377 |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-07-15T14:20:43.746Z
Updated: 2026-07-15T18:00:42.038Z
Reserved: 2026-07-13T18:37:08.488Z
Link: CVE-2026-62294
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2026-07-15T18:00:35.476Z
NVD
Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-07-15T15:16:49.010
Modified: 2026-07-15T20:56:21.653
Link: CVE-2026-62294
Redhat
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