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CVE-2026-35363

5.6 medium SSVC exploitation: none Analyzed

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.

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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1

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Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.6 · uutilsNVD modified 2026-10-26 21:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

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

References 1