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CVE-2026-35373

5.5 medium SSVC exploitation: poc Analyzed

A logic error in the ln utility of uutils coreutils causes the program to reject source paths containing non-UTF-8 filename bytes when using target-directory forms (e.g., ln SOURCE... DIRECTORY). While GNU ln treats filenames as raw bytes and creates the links correctly, the uutils implementation enforces UTF-8 encoding, resulting in a failure to stat the file and a non-zero exit code. In environments where automated scripts or system tasks process valid but non-UTF-8 filenames common on Unix filesystems, this divergence causes the utility to fail, leading to a local denial of service for those specific operations.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.5 · uutilsNVD modified 2026-10-26 21:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

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

References 1