CVE-2026-35362

low

Description

The safe_traversal module in uutils coreutils, which provides protection against Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) symlink races using file-descriptor-relative syscalls, is incorrectly limited to Linux targets. On other Unix-like systems such as macOS and FreeBSD, the utility fails to utilize these protections, leaving directory traversal operations vulnerable to symlink race conditions.

References

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.6.0

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/9792

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-22

Updated: 2026-04-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Low