CVE-2026-35346

The comm utility in uutils coreutils silently corrupts data by performing lossy UTF-8 conversion on all output lines. The implementation uses String::from_utf8_lossy(), which replaces invalid UTF-8 byte sequences with the Unicode replacement character (U+FFFD). This behavior differs from GNU comm, which processes raw bytes and preserves the original input. This results in corrupted output when the utility is used to compare binary files or files using non-UTF-8 legacy encodings.

CVSS 3.1

3.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 7% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-26)

CWE

CWE-176

Published

2026-04-22

Modified

2026-10-26

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-26

Affected

• uutils:coreutils

Packages (OSV)

References

• https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10192
• https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/10206
• https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.6.0
• https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10192

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