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CVE-2026-4878 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in libcap's `cap_set_file()` function, caused by a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition. It has a CVSS 3.1 score of 6.7 (MEDIUM). The article does not provide specific affected or fixed version numbers.