{"id":"CVE-2026-111802","title":"Nautilus: nautilus: arbitrary file deletion via trash symlink","summary":"A flaw was found in Nautilus. When a removable drive or disk image is unmounted or ejected, Nautilus prompts the user to empty the trash without verifying whether the trash directory paths are symbolic links. An attacker can exploit this…","severity":"medium","cvss":6.6,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","cvssSource":"cna","cwe":["CWE-59"],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"nautilus","affected":["nautilus (all versions)","nautilus","nautilus (all versions)","nautilus (all versions)","nautilus (all versions)"],"published":"2026-10-16","updated":"2026-10-16","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-16T22:03:50.287Z","source":"CVEORG","sourceUrl":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-111802","references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-111802"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2554410","label":"RHBZ#2554410"},{"url":"https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/2179"}],"tags":["cve.org"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-16T22:54:45.853Z","slug":"CVE-2026-111802","body":"## Overview\n\nA flaw was found in Nautilus. When a removable drive or disk image is unmounted or ejected, Nautilus prompts the user to empty the trash without verifying whether the trash directory paths are symbolic links. An attacker can exploit this flaw by tricking a user into mounting a crafted storage volume and confirming the prompt to empty the trash, leading to the arbitrary deletion of files accessible to that user.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `nautilus (all versions)`\n- `nautilus`\n- `nautilus (all versions)`\n- `nautilus (all versions)`\n- `nautilus (all versions)`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.\n\n### Workarounds\n\nMitigation if available: Do not choose \"Empty\" or remove the ability to \"Empty Trash\" upon ejecting USB devices","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":36,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":36.3,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}