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CVE-2026-35375GHSA-VX9M-XJWF-8CQM

uutils coreutils split Local Data Integrity Issue via Lossy Filename Encoding

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.8.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

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 rewrites invalid byte sequences into the UTF-8 replacement character (U+FFFD). This behavior diverges from GNU split, which preserves raw pathname bytes intact. In environments utilizing non-UTF-8 encodings, this vulnerability leads to the creation of files with incorrect names, potentially causing filename collisions, broken automation, or the misdirection of output data.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • coreutils

    fixed in 0.8.0

  • coreutilscrates.io

    fixed in 0.8.0

References 2

GitHub · uutils/coreutils