CVE-2026-35362

LOW3.6EPSS 0.02%

uutils coreutils has a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Published: 4/22/2026Modified: 5/5/2026
Also known as:GHSA-ggc5-46rg-mr4v

Description

The safe_traversal module in uutils coreutils, which provides protection against Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) symlink races using file-descriptor-relative syscalls, is incorrectly limited to Linux targets. On other Unix-like systems such as macOS and FreeBSD, the utility fails to utilize these protections, leaving directory traversal operations vulnerable to symlink race conditions.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1LOW3.6CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

References (6)