CVE 5.5 MEDIUM

uutils coreutils sort Local Denial of Service via Forced UTF-8 Parsing_CVE-2026-35348

5.5 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

The sort utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a process panic when using the --files0-from option with inputs containing non-UTF-8 filenames. The implementation enforces UTF-8 encoding and utilizes expect(), causing an immediate crash when encountering valid but non-UTF-8 paths. This diverges from GNU sort, which treats filenames as raw bytes. A local attacker can exploit this to crash the utility and disrupt automated pipelines.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-35348
Source canonical
Published Apr 22, 2026 at 16:07

Affected Product

Vendor Uutils
Product coreutils

CWE Classification

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