CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-35345

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2026-04-22 Modified 2026-10-26 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-04-22
Last modified
2026-10-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-367, CWE-59

Description

A vulnerability in the tail utility of uutils coreutils allows for the exfiltration of sensitive file contents when using the --follow=name option. Unlike GNU tail, the uutils implementation continues to monitor a path after it has been replaced by a symbolic link, subsequently outputting the contents of the link's target. In environments where a privileged user (e.g., root) monitors a log directory, a local attacker with write access to that directory can replace a log file with a symlink to a sensitive system file (such as /etc/shadow), causing tail to disclose the contents of the sensitive file.

Affected configurations

• uutils coreutils

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition weakness
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References