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medium 5.5

CVE-2026-35380 json

uutils coreutils cut Local Logic Error and Data Integrity Issue in Delimiter Parsing

published 2026-04-22 6 mo ago modified 2026-10-26 13 d ago also GHSA-m2pg-c7m6-77pj , EUVD-2026-25036

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 4%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A logic error in the cut utility of uutils coreutils causes the program to incorrectly interpret the literal two-byte string '' (two single quotes) as an empty delimiter. The implementation mistakenly maps this string to the NUL character for both the -d (delimiter) and --output-delimiter options. This vulnerability can lead to silent data corruption or logic errors in automated scripts and data pipelines that process strings containing these characters, as the utility may unintentionally split or join data on NUL bytes rather than the intended literal characters.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io coreutils 0.8.0
  • Uutils coreutils 0.8.0
  • rust-coreutils Debian 14 0.8.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-35380

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-35380 updated cvss 5.5

rust-coreutils: cut: local logic error and data integrity issue in delimiter parsing

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
6 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/11399 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io coreutils
<0.8.0
0.8.0

Affected products

  • Uutils coreutils

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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