CVE-2026-35363CWE-22

uutils coreutils rm Safeguard Bypass via Improper Path Normalization

Medium · published April 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00171 · 6.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2026-04-22T16:08Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 APR 16:08Z
    uutils coreutils rm Safeguard Bypass via Improper Path Normalization
    cvelistv5