CVE catalog

CVE-2026-35363

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 fai

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Severity
Medium · CVSS 5.6CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
Published
Source
[NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS
0.17% · Oct 25, 2026

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.

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

DistributionPackageReleaseVersionStatus
Debianrust-coreutilssid0.12.0-1fixed
Debianrust-coreutilsforky0.12.0-1fixed
Debianrust-coreutilstrixie0.0.30-2vulnerable
Debianrust-coreutilsbookworm0.0.17-2vulnerable
Cperust-coreutilsNot reportedNot reportedvulnerable
CpecoreutilsNot reportedNot reportedunknown
CpecoreutilsNot reportedNot reportedunknown

Fixed-version evidence

DistributionPackageTypeReleaseFixed versionUrgencyOriginBugs
Debianrust-coreutilssourcesid0.8.0-1not yet assignedNot reported[1134876]
Debianrust-coreutilssourceforky0.8.0-1not yet assignedNot reported[1134876]
Debianrust-coreutilssourcetrixie(unfixed)not yet assignedNot reported[1134876]
Debianrust-coreutilssourcebookworm(unfixed)not yet assignedNot reported[1134876]

[Debian bug #1134876]

Notes

[trixie] rust-coreutils: Minor issue [bookworm] rust-coreutils: Minor issue

OpenFactory catalog packages

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

  • [rust-coreutils]Affected
    Details (2)

    • 0.0.17-2 · amd64 · bookworm

      Affected

      nvd · rust-coreutils · debian · bookworm; nvd · rust-coreutils · debian · 12

    • 0.0.17-2 · arm64 · bookworm

      Affected

      nvd · rust-coreutils · debian · bookworm; nvd · rust-coreutils · debian · 12

[Debian 13 (Trixie)]

  • [rust-coreutils]Affected
    Details (2)

    • 0.0.30-2 · amd64 · trixie

      Affected

      nvd · rust-coreutils · debian · 13

    • 0.0.30-2 · arm64 · trixie

      Affected

      nvd · rust-coreutils · debian · 13

Observed:

References

[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [National Vulnerability Database (NVD)] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database] · [Red Hat security advisories and VEX]