What is CVE-2026-35362?

CVE-2026-35362 is a low-severity vulnerability in Uutils Coreutils, classified under Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition. CVSS score: 3.6/10. Published 2026-04-22.

How severe is CVE-2026-35362?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.6 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Uutils Coreutils

CVE-2026-35362

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 syste…

Vulnerability class: TOCTOU (Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use)

EPSS: 0.000 (5.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.6 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Uutils Coreutils — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

References

github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/9792 (issue-tracking, patch)
github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.6.0 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-35362?: CVE-2026-35362 is a low-severity vulnerability in Uutils Coreutils, classified under Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition. CVSS score: 3.6/10. Published 2026-04-22.
How severe is CVE-2026-35362?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.6 out of 10.