CVE-2026-35363

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.
References
Link Resource
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749 Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:uutils:coreutils:-:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*

History

24 Apr 2026, 19:02

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References () https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749 - () https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749 - Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
CPE cpe:2.3:a:uutils:coreutils:-:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*
First Time Uutils
Uutils coreutils

22 Apr 2026, 17:16

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-04-22 17:16

Updated : 2026-04-24 19:02


NVD link : CVE-2026-35363

Mitre link : CVE-2026-35363

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-35363


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Products Affected

uutils

  • coreutils
CWE
CWE-22

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')