CVE-2026-35360: Uutils Coreutils

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The touch utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition during file creation. When the utility identifies a missing path, it later attempts creation using File::create(), which internally uses O_TRUNC. An attacker can exploit this window to create a file or swap a symlink at the target path, causing touch to truncate an existing file and leading to permanent data loss.

Affected products

• Uutils Coreutils: affected versions not specified

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