GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-vx9m-xjwf-8cqm uutils coreutils has an Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding Issue

LOW Published 2026-04-22 Modified 2026-04-30 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-35375
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
coreutils
Severity
Low
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-176
Reviewed
2026-04-30

Affected packages

• crates.io coreutils: < 0.8.0 → fixed in 0.8.0

Description

A logic error in the split utility of uutils coreutils causes the corruption of output filenames when provided with non-UTF-8 prefix or suffix inputs. The implementation utilizes to_string_lossy() when constructing chunk filenames, which automatically rewrites invalid byte sequences into the UTF-8 replacement character (U+FFFD). This behavior diverges from GNU split, which preserves raw pathname bytes intact. In environments utilizing non-UTF-8 encodings, this vulnerability leads to the creation of files with incorrect names, potentially causing filename collisions, broken automation, or the misdirection of output data.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-35375 A logic error in the split utility of uutils coreutils causes the corruption of output filenames when provided with non-UTF-8 prefix or… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-176 Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding weakness

References