uutils/coreutils · Security
uutils coreutils has an Uncaught Exception When Encountering Valid but Non-UTF-8 Paths
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-f2jv-wjjc-2c94
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-35348
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 5.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
The sort utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a process panic when using the --files0-from option with inputs containing non-UTF-8 filenames. The implementation enforces UTF-8 encoding and utilizes expect(), causing an immediate crash when encountering valid but non-UTF-8 paths. This diverges from GNU sort, which treats filenames as raw bytes. A local attacker can exploit this to crash the utility and disrupt automated pipelines.
CWEs
- CWE-248 · Uncaught Exception