CVE-2026-35363

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.

CVSS 3.1

5.6CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-26)

CWE

CWE-22

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/9749

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