# CVE-2026-34354: Race condition in Guardicore Platform Agent

> Local attackers can escalate privileges to root via TOCTOU race conditions in the IPC socket and command injection in diagnostic tools.

- **Severity:** High 7.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 May 2026
- **Updated:** 8 May 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-54h8-vwcv-q5r9

## What is CVE-2026-34354?

CVE-2026-34354 is a high-severity vulnerability in Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent, published on 8 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent (GPA) and Zero Trust Client on Linux and macOS allow TOCTOU-based local privilege escalation. The GPA service creates an IPC socket in the world-writable /tmp directory. It accepts unauthenticated IPC control messages. This enables a TOCTOU vulnerability in the HandleSaveLogs() function of the GPA service, by creating a log file and manipulating it into a symlink that points to the targeted path; this can allow an unprivileged local user to make arbitrary root-owned files world-writable. In addition, a diagnostic collection tool (gimmelogs) running with root privileges was vulnerable to command injection from the dbstore, offering a second privilege escalation vector. (On Windows, gimmelogs does not have command injection but does allow writing a ZIP archive to an unintended location.) This affects Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent 7.0 through 7.3.1 and Akamai Zero Trust Client 6.0 through 6.1.5.

Weakness: CWE-367 (Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-34354?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-34354?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-34354 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-34354 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-34354 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-34354 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-34354 is a high-severity vulnerability in Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent, published on 8 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-34354 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-34354/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-34354/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-34354
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-34354
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-34354

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-34354/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.