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CVE-2026-55567

BleachBit: Exploit File Delete to Escalate Privilege PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

BleachBit cleans files to free disk space and to maintain privacy. Prior to 6.0.1, privileged Windows cleaning does not lock and validate a target's parent directory before deletion. A local unprivileged user can replace that directory with a Windows junction and use a native symlink to redirect the elevated deletion to an attacker-selected file. The arbitrary privileged file deletion can be combined with Windows Installer behavior to obtain local SYSTEM privileges. This issue is fixed in version 6.0.1.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
bleachbit / bleachbitaffected < 6.0.1

CWE

CWE-367

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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