CVE-2026-35362: Uutils Coreutils

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The safe_traversal module in uutils coreutils, which provides protection against Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) symlink races using file-descriptor-relative syscalls, is incorrectly limited to Linux targets. On other Unix-like systems such as macOS and FreeBSD, the utility fails to utilize these protections, leaving directory traversal operations vulnerable to symlink race conditions.

Affected products

• Uutils Coreutils: before 0.6.0 (fixed in 0.6.0)

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