GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-m976-87wm-48fm uutils coreutils has a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

MEDIUM Published 2026-04-22 Modified 2026-04-30 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-35364
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
coreutils
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-367
Reviewed
2026-04-30

Affected packages

• crates.io coreutils: <= 0.8.0 (no fix yet)

Description

A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition exists in the mv utility of uutils coreutils during cross-device operations. The utility removes the destination path before recreating it through a copy operation. A local attacker with write access to the destination directory can exploit this window to replace the destination with a symbolic link. The subsequent privileged move operation will follow the symlink, allowing the attacker to redirect the write and overwrite an arbitrary target file with contents from the source.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-35364 A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition exists in the mv utility of uutils coreutils during cross-device operations. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition weakness

References