CVE-2026-35349: Uutils Coreutils

High severity, CVSS 7.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the rm utility of uutils coreutils allows a bypass of the --preserve-root protection. The implementation uses a path-string check rather than comparing device and inode numbers to identify the root directory. An attacker or accidental user can bypass this safeguard by using a symbolic link that resolves to the root directory (e.g., /tmp/rootlink -> /), potentially leading to the unintended recursive deletion of the entire root filesystem.

Affected products

• Uutils Coreutils: before 0.7.0 (fixed in 0.7.0)

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