Answer in brief
CVE-2026-112934 records a Medium severity (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability in filelock: SoftReadWriteLock holder refresh writes through a hard link and hangs on a named pipe that another local user renames over its record. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps tox-dev/filelock (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 6.1. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps tox-dev/filelock (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| tox-dev/filelockgeneric | >=4.0.0 <4.2.1 | 4.2.1 |
Published upstream
Oct 20, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 20, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Oct 20, 2026
filelock is a platform-independent file lock for Python. From 4.0.0 until 4.2.1, SoftReadWriteLock refreshes holder records by name, allowing another local user with rename access to the lock directory to replace a record with a named pipe and stall the lock, or under a permissive hard-link policy to link a reachable target file and cause the lock user to write through it. This issue is fixed in version 4.2.1.
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