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.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-04-22T16:08:36.133Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-22T17:24:11.243Z

Source :

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AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-35363 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Uutils
  • Coreutils
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