CVE-2026-35369CWE-20

uutils coreutils kill System-wide Process Termination and Denial of Service via Argument Misinterpretation

Medium · published April 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An argument parsing error in the kill utility of uutils coreutils incorrectly interprets kill -1 as a request to send the default signal (SIGTERM) to PID -1. Sending a signal to PID -1 causes the kernel to terminate all processes visible to the caller, potentially leading to a system crash or massive process termination. This differs from GNU coreutils, which correctly recognizes -1 as a signal number in this context and would instead report a missing PID argument.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00151 · 3.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
Published
2026-04-22T16:08Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 APR 16:08Z
    uutils coreutils kill System-wide Process Termination and Denial of Service via Argument Misinterpretation
    cvelistv5