CVE-2026-35363: Uutils Coreutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.6. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the rm utility of uutils coreutils allows the bypass of safeguard mechanisms intended to protect the current directory. While the utility correctly refuses to delete . or .., it fails to recognize equivalent paths with trailing slashes, such as ./ or .///. An accidental or malicious execution of rm -rf ./ results in the silent recursive deletion of all contents within the current directory. The command further obscures the data loss by reporting a misleading 'Invalid input' error, which may cause users to miss the critical window for data recovery.

Affected products

• Uutils Coreutils: affected versions not specified

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