CWE-768: Incorrect Short Circuit Evaluation
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The product contains a conditional statement with multiple logical expressions in which one of the non-leading expressions may produce side effects.
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- 3.3CVE-2026-35378EPSS 0.2%
A logic error in the expr utility of uutils coreutils causes the program to evaluate parenthesized subexpressions during the parsing phase rather than at the execution phase. This implementation flaw prevents the utility from performing pr…