CVE-2026-35363

NameCVE-2026-35363
DescriptionA 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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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
rust-coreutils (PTS)bookworm0.0.17-2vulnerable
trixie0.0.30-2vulnerable
forky0.0.30-4vulnerable
sid0.7.0-1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
rust-coreutilssource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

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

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