medium5.6
CVE-2026-35363
A vulnerability in the rm utility of uutils coreutils allows the bypass of safeguard mechanisms intended to protect the current directory.
Impact
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.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| rust | uu_rm | < 0.6.0 | 0.6.0 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Uutils | Coreutils | All versions |