CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2026-55567
High (7.8). EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 2% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-367
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://github.com/bleachbit/bleachbit/commit/ee128238e92c7192f0c4d6406b1bd0cd9155e7e0
- https://github.com/bleachbit/bleachbit/pull/1774
- https://github.com/bleachbit/bleachbit/releases/tag/v6.0.1
- https://github.com/bleachbit/bleachbit/security/advisories/GHSA-vcjw-px28-5w94
- https://github.com/bleachbit/bleachbit/security/advisories/GHSA-vcjw-px28-5w94