CVE-2026-35363

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-22

Updated: 2026-04-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.2

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.6

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00009