CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-35348
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-04-22
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-248
Description
The sort utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a process panic when using the --files0-from option with inputs containing non-UTF-8 filenames. The implementation enforces UTF-8 encoding and utilizes expect(), causing an immediate crash when encountering valid but non-UTF-8 paths. This diverges from GNU sort, which treats filenames as raw bytes. A local attacker can exploit this to crash the utility and disrupt automated pipelines.
Affected configurations
• uutils coreutils
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-248 Uncaught Exception weakness
References
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9696 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9696 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory