Libcap

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Libcap, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

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The 5 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Libcap.

• CVE-2026-4878Libcap: libcap: privilege escalation via toctou race condition in cap_set_file()6.7Apr 9, 2026
• CVE-2025-1390pam_cap: Fix potential configuration parsing error6.1Feb 18, 2025
• CVE-2023-2603A vulnerability was found in libcap. This issue occurs in the _libcap_strdup() function and can lead to an integer overflow if the input string is close to 4GiB.7.8Jun 6, 2023
• CVE-2023-2602A vulnerability was found in the pthread_create() function in libcap. This issue may allow a malicious actor to use cause __real_pthread_create() to return an error, which can exhaust the process m...3.3Jun 6, 2023
• CVE-2011-4099The capsh program in libcap before 2.22 does not change the current working directory when the --chroot option is specified, which allows local users to bypass the chroot restrictions via unspecifi...4.6Feb 8, 2014