CVE-2026-35348
MEDIUMuutils coreutils sort Local Denial of Service via Forced UTF-8 Parsing
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0001
EPSS Percentile
2.4%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-248
Status
published
Products (2)
Uutils/coreutils
uutils/coreutils
Published
Apr 22, 2026
Tracked Since
Apr 22, 2026