{"id":"CVE-2026-35363","aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-35363","EUVD-2026-25008","GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2","GHSA-vchc-9ggh-3236","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-35363"],"status":"published","title":"uutils coreutils rm Safeguard Bypass via Improper Path Normalization","description":"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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":5.6,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00166,"percentile":0.05881,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-22","CWE-693"],"published":"2026-04-22T16:08:36Z","modified":"2026-11-11T09:39:38Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"crates.io","package":"uu_rm","fixed_in":["0.6.0"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]},{"ecosystem":"Debian:14","package":"rust-coreutils","fixed_in":["0.8.0-1"],"sources":["osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"crates.io","package":"uu_rm","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.6.0"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Debian:12","package":"rust-coreutils","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.0.17-2","0.0.17-3","0.0.17-4","0.0.17-5","0.0.17-6","0.0.19-1","0.0.19-2","0.0.19-3","0.0.20-1","0.0.21-1","0.0.22-1","0.0.23-1","0.0.23-2","0.0.23-3","0.0.24-1","0.0.24-2","0.0.26-1","0.0.26-2","0.0.26-3","0.0.26-4","0.0.26-5","0.0.27-1","0.0.27-2","0.0.27-3","0.0.30-1","0.0.30-2","0.0.30-3","0.0.30-3~exp1","0.0.30-4","0.10.0-1","0.11.0-1","0.11.0-2","0.12.0-1","0.6.0-1","0.7.0-1","0.8.0-1","0.8.0-2","0.8.0-3","0.8.0-4","0.8.0-5","0.8.0-6","0.9.0-1","0.9.0-2","0.9.0-3"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Debian:13","package":"rust-coreutils","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.0.30-2","0.0.30-3","0.0.30-3~exp1","0.0.30-4","0.10.0-1","0.11.0-1","0.11.0-2","0.12.0-1","0.6.0-1","0.7.0-1","0.8.0-1","0.8.0-2","0.8.0-3","0.8.0-4","0.8.0-5","0.8.0-6","0.9.0-1","0.9.0-2","0.9.0-3"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Debian:14","package":"rust-coreutils","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.8.0-1"}]}],"versions":["0.0.30-2","0.0.30-3","0.0.30-3~exp1","0.0.30-4","0.6.0-1","0.7.0-1"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"crates.io","package":"uu_rm","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.6.0"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:24.04:LTS","package":"rust-coreutils","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.0.20-1","0.0.22-1","0.0.23-1","0.0.23-2","0.0.23-3","0.0.24-1","0.0.24-2"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:25.10","package":"rust-coreutils","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.0.30-1","0.0.30-2","0.0.30-2ubuntu2","0.1.0-0ubuntu1","0.1.0+git20250711.2ba3a33-0ubuntu1","0.1.0+git20250711.2ba3a33-0ubuntu2","0.1.0+git20250711.2ba3a33-0ubuntu3","0.1.0+git20250711.2ba3a33-0ubuntu4","0.1.0+git20250801.cf79675-0ubuntu1","0.1.0+git20250813.4af2a84-0ubuntu2","0.1.0+git20250813.4af2a84-0ubuntu4","0.1.0+git20250813.4af2a84-0ubuntu6","0.1.0+git20250813.4af2a84-0ubuntu7","0.2.2-0ubuntu1","0.2.2-0ubuntu2","0.2.2-0ubuntu2.1"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:26.04:LTS","package":"rust-coreutils","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.2.2-0ubuntu2","0.2.2-0ubuntu4","0.5.0-0ubuntu1","0.5.0-0ubuntu2","0.6.0-0ubuntu1","0.7.0-0ubuntu1","0.8.0-0ubuntu3","0.10.0-1ubuntu2~26.04.1"]}],"products":[{"vendor":"uutils","product":"coreutils"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749","tags":["issue-tracking","Exploit","Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/security/advisories/GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35363","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vchc-9ggh-3236"},{"url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-35363","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/uutils/coreutils","tags":["package"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-35363","tags":["report"]},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35363","tags":["report"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-35363","title":"uutils coreutils rm Safeguard Bypass via Improper Path Normalization","description":"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.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-22T16:08:36.133Z","modified":"2026-04-22T17:24:11.243Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.6,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-22"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:20:05.505362Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-25008","description":"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.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-22T16:08:36Z","modified":"2026-04-22T17:24:11Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.6,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T19:24:20.283712Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2","title":"rm: 'rm -rf ./' (and ./// variants) silently deletes current directory contents, bypassing dot protection","description":"`rm -rf .` is correctly refused, but `clean_trailing_slashes` normalizes `.///` to `./` while `path_is_current_or_parent_directory` only matches `.`/`..` (and `/.`/`/..`), not `./` or `../`. So `rm -rf ./` recursively deletes the directory's contents and then prints a misleading `cannot remove './': Invalid input`.\n\n**Impact:** all files/subdirectories in the current directory are silently deleted; the misleading error makes users miss the recovery window. Recommendation: handle trailing-slash variants in `path_is_current_or_parent_directory`.\n\n**Remediation:** Acknowledged by Canonical; fixed in commit d0e5af23.\n\n---\n_Reported by Zellic in the *uutils coreutils Program Security Assessment* (prepared for Canonical, Jan 20 2026), audited commit `3a07ffc5a9bd4c283e75afa548ba1f1957bad242`. Finding 3.60. 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So `rm -rf ./` recursively deletes the directory's contents and then prints a misleading `cannot remove './': Invalid input`.\n\n**Impact:** all files/subdirectories in the current directory are silently deleted; the misleading error makes users miss the recovery window. Recommendation: handle trailing-slash variants in `path_is_current_or_parent_directory`.\n\n**Remediation:** Acknowledged by Canonical; fixed in commit d0e5af23.\n\n---\n_Reported by Zellic in the *uutils coreutils Program Security Assessment* (prepared for Canonical, Jan 20 2026), audited commit `3a07ffc5a9bd4c283e75afa548ba1f1957bad242`. Finding 3.60. 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