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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | BleachBit: Exploit File Delete to Escalate Privilege | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-367 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-09-21T15:16:03.499Z
Reserved: 2026-06-16T23:11:20.214Z
Link: CVE-2026-55567
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-21T15:17:29.793
Modified: 2026-09-21T15:17:29.793
Link: CVE-2026-55567
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