# CVE-2026-35369: uutils coreutils kill System-wide Process Termination and Denial of Service via Argument Misinterpretation

- Also known as: GHSA-P6RV-2QPM-FWVG
- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.6.0
- Published: 2026-04-22 · Updated: 2026-04-22

## Affected

- coreutils: fixed in 0.6.0
- uu\_kill (crates.io): fixed in 0.6.0

## Description

An argument parsing error in the kill utility of uutils coreutils incorrectly interprets kill -1 as a request to send the default signal (SIGTERM) to PID -1. Sending a signal to PID -1 causes the kernel to terminate all processes visible to the caller, potentially leading to a system crash or massive process termination. This differs from GNU coreutils, which correctly recognizes -1 as a signal number in this context and would instead report a missing PID argument.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on coreutils, uu\_kill, upgrade to a fixed version (0.6.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/9700
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.6.0

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