CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-35373

5.5 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])
3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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-176

Description

A logic error in the ln utility of uutils coreutils causes the program to reject source paths containing non-UTF-8 filename bytes when using target-directory forms (e.g., ln SOURCE... DIRECTORY). While GNU ln treats filenames as raw bytes and creates the links correctly, the uutils implementation enforces UTF-8 encoding, resulting in a failure to stat the file and a non-zero exit code. In environments where automated scripts or system tasks process valid but non-UTF-8 filenames common on Unix filesystems, this divergence causes the utility to fail, leading to a local denial of service for those specific operations.

Affected configurations

• uutils coreutils

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-176 Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding weakness

References