CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-35363

5.6 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])
5.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-22

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.

Affected configurations

• uutils coreutils

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References