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CVE-2026-35360

6.3 medium SSVC exploitation: poc Analyzed

The touch utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition during file creation. When the utility identifies a missing path, it later attempts creation using File::create(), which internally uses O_TRUNC. An attacker can exploit this window to create a file or swap a symlink at the target path, causing touch to truncate an existing file and leading to permanent data loss.

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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2

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Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 6.3 · uutilsNVD modified 2026-10-26 21:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

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

References 2