CVE-2026-35363

MEDIUM EPSS 6.1%
Published Apr 22, 20262mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
5.6 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Apr 22, 2026 2mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

A vulnerability in the rm utility of uutils coreutils allows the bypass of safeguard mechanisms intended to protect the current directory. While the utility correctly refuses to delete . or .., it fails to recognize equivalent paths with trailing slashes, such as ./ or .///. An accidental or malicious execution of rm -rf ./ results in the silent recursive deletion of all contents within the current directory. The command further obscures the data loss by reporting a misleading 'Invalid input' error, which may cause users to miss the critical window for data recovery.

CVSS Details

Base Score
5.6
Exploitability
1.3
Impact
4.2
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity High
Availability Low

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
6.1% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
Public Exploit Known
No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-22 Path Traversal Resource Mgmt

Affected Products 1

VendorProductVersionRange
uutilscoreutils*any

References 1

  • github.com https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749
    ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

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