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.
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| https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749 |
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Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:15:00 +0000
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:uutils:coreutils:-:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* | |
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Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:30:00 +0000
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| 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. | |
| Title | uutils coreutils rm Safeguard Bypass via Improper Path Normalization | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-22 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: canonical
Published: 2026-04-22T16:08:36.133Z
Updated: 2026-04-22T17:24:11.243Z
Reserved: 2026-04-02T12:58:56.088Z
Link: CVE-2026-35363
Updated: 2026-04-22T17:24:08.174Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2026-04-22T17:16:39.120
Modified: 2026-04-24T19:02:00.463
Link: CVE-2026-35363
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