CVE-2025-0913

Inconsistent handling of O_CREATE|O_EXCL on Unix and Windows in os in syscall

Medium · published June 11, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
24.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

os.OpenFile(path, os.O_CREATE|O_EXCL) behaved differently on Unix and Windows systems when the target path was a dangling symlink. On Unix systems, OpenFile with O_CREATE and O_EXCL flags never follows symlinks. On Windows, when the target path was a symlink to a nonexistent location, OpenFile would create a file in that location. OpenFile now always returns an error when the O_CREATE and O_EXCL flags are both set and the target path is a symlink.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00325 · 24.3th percentile
Published
2025-06-11T17:17Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 JUN 17:17Z
    Inconsistent handling of O_CREATE|O_EXCL on Unix and Windows in os in syscall
    cvelistv5