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The uutils coreutils project has multiple vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to exploit systems or bypass security mechanisms.

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This thread discusses multiple vulnerabilities in the uutils coreutils project, highlighting security issues in various utilities such as chcon, mv, rm, and cp. These vulnerabilities include TOCTOU race conditions, logic errors, and improper handling of file operations, which could allow attackers to exploit systems or bypass security mechanisms.

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The uutils coreutils project has multiple vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to exploit systems or bypass security mechanisms.
Parent: CybersecurityEntity: uutils coreutilsImpact: negativeDate: Apr 22, 2026Target: The security of the uutils coreutils project

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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-25028 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 4.5/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: coreutils ๐Ÿข Vendor: Uutils ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability exists in the chcon utility of uutils coreutils during recursive operations. The implementation resolves recursive targets using a fresh path lookup (via fts_accpath) rather than binding the traversal an... ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-25028 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-25026 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 3.3/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: coreutils ๐Ÿข Vendor: Uutils ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ A logic error in the split utility of uutils coreutils causes the corruption of output filenames when provided with non-UTF-8 prefix or suffix inputs. The implementation utilizes to_string_lossy() when constructing chunk filenames, which automatically rewri... ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-25026 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24996 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 4.7/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿข Vendor: Uutils ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ The cp utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to an information disclosure race condition. Destination files are initially created with umask-derived permissions (e.g., 0644) before being restricted to their final mode (e.g., 0600) later in the process. A local attacker can ... ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24996 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24998 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 4.4/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: coreutils ๐Ÿข Vendor: Uutils ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ The cp utility in uutils coreutils, when performing recursive copies (-R), incorrectly treats character and block device nodes as stream sources rather than preserving them. Because the implementation reads bytes into regular files at the destination instea... ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24998 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-25000 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 4.7/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿข Vendor: Uutils ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the cp utility of uutils coreutils allows an attacker to bypass no-dereference intent. The utility checks if a source path is a symbolic link using path-based metadata but subsequently opens it without the O_NOFOLLOW flag... ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-25000 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-25002 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 6.3/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿข Vendor: Uutils ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ The touch utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition during file creation. When the utility identifies a missing path, it later attempts creation using File::create(), which internally uses O_TRUNC. An attacker can exploi... ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-25002 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-25004 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 3.4/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: coreutils ๐Ÿข Vendor: Uutils ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ The mknod utility in uutils coreutils fails to handle security labels atomically by creating device nodes before setting the SELinux context. If labeling fails, the utility attempts cleanup using std::fs::remove_dir, which cannot remove device nodes or FIFO... ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-25004 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-25006 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 3.6/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: coreutils ๐Ÿข Vendor: Uutils ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ 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 a... ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-25006 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-25008 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 5.6/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿข Vendor: Uutils ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ 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... ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-25008 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-25010 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 6.3/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿข Vendor: Uutils ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition exists in the mv utility of uutils coreutils during cross-device operations. The utility removes the destination path before recreating it through a copy operation. A local attacker with write access to the destination dire... ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-25010 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-25038 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 3.3/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: coreutils ๐Ÿข Vendor: Uutils ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ A logic error in the cut utility of uutils coreutils causes the utility to ignore the -s (only-delimited) flag when using the -z (null-terminated) and -d '' (empty delimiter) options together. The implementation incorrectly routes this specific combination ... ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-25038 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-25032 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 3.3/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: coreutils ๐Ÿข Vendor: Uutils ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ A logic error in the expr utility of uutils coreutils causes the program to evaluate parenthesized subexpressions during the parsing phase rather than at the execution phase. This implementation flaw prevents the utility from performing proper short-circuit... ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-25032 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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