{"id":"CVE-2026-35349","aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-35349","EUVD-2026-24981","GHSA-7cr3-h577-g38j","GHSA-v762-x3cf-5mfg","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-35349"],"status":"published","title":"uutils coreutils Path-Based Safety Bypass with --preserve-root","description":"A vulnerability in the rm utility of uutils coreutils allows a bypass of the --preserve-root protection. The implementation uses a path-string check rather than comparing device and inode numbers to identify the root directory. 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