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.

• CWE-22

• https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

Published

Apr 22, 2026

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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