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Restricted-user bind/rbind mounts authorize the source from /etc/fstab but do not pin that source inode before the privileged mount. libmount later opens the source as a pathname via open_tree(AT_FDCWD, source, OPEN_TREE_CLONE|...) (mnt_context_open_tree in context.c / hook_mount.c). A local unprivileged user who can replace the fstab bind source or a writable ancestor with a symlink can redirect SUID mount(8) to bind an attacker-selected host directory. When the same fstab entry includes X-mount.owner=, X-mount.group=, or X-mount.mode=, hook_owner.c then applies root-privileged fchownat()/chmod() to the mounted root, which for a bind mount is the redirected source inode. This is a source-side pathname TOCTOU; current HEAD already pins the target and uses fd-based owner hooks (the CVE-2026-53612 target-path fix), but that fd now refers to the attacker-redirected bind source. Distinct from the public loop backing-file TOCTOU and from CVE-2026-76642 (failed external helper still running post-hooks). X-mount.owner/group/mode was introduced with v2.39; no upstream fix as of 2026-08-24. Reported upstream by Alex0Young. GHSA-rh77-686x-2f2m.