CVE-2026-35340

A flaw in the ChownExecutor used by uutils coreutils chown and chgrp causes the utilities to return an incorrect exit code during recursive operations. The final exit code is determined only by the last file processed. If the last operation succeeds, the command returns 0 even if earlier ownership or group changes failed due to permission errors. This can lead to security misconfigurations where administrative scripts incorrectly assume that ownership has been successfully transferred across a directory tree.

CVSS 3.1

5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS

0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 3% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-26)

CWE

CWE-253

Published

2026-04-22

Modified

2026-10-26

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-26

Affected

• uutils:coreutils

References

• https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/10035
• https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.6.0

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