CVE-2026-35348: Uutils Coreutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The sort utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a process panic when using the --files0-from option with inputs containing non-UTF-8 filenames. The implementation enforces UTF-8 encoding and utilizes expect(), causing an immediate crash when encountering valid but non-UTF-8 paths. This diverges from GNU sort, which treats filenames as raw bytes. A local attacker can exploit this to crash the utility and disrupt automated pipelines.

Affected products

• Uutils Coreutils: affected versions not specified

Published 2026-04-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.