PT-2026-34499 · Unknown · Uutils Coreutils

Zellic · Published 2026-04-22 · Updated 2026-04-23 · CVE-2026-35363

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions uutils coreutils (affected versions not specified)

Description A flaw in the rm utility allows the bypass of safeguard mechanisms designed to protect the current directory. Although the utility prevents the deletion of . or .., it does not recognize equivalent paths that include trailing slashes, such as ./ or .///. This can lead to the silent recursive deletion of all contents in the current directory when executing rm -rf ./. Additionally, the utility may report an 'Invalid input' error, which can mislead users and hinder timely data recovery.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-35363

GHSA-VCHC-9GGH-3236

Affected Products

Uutils Coreutils

References · 10

• https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-35363 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35363 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35363 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-vchc-9ggh-3236 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-35363 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-35363 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-35363 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/uutils/coreutils · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2047012091094249733 · Twitter Post