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.

CVSS v3 5.6 MEDIUM

5.6^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.3 / Impact : 4.2

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact LOW

Scope UNCHANGED

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

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-04-22 17:16

Updated : 2026-06-17 10:40

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')

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