CVE-2026-35368

HIGH

uutils coreutils chroot Local Privilege Escalation and chroot Escape in via Name Service Switch (NSS) Injection

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability exists in the chroot utility of uutils coreutils when using the --userspec option. The utility resolves the user specification via getpwnam() after entering the chroot but before dropping root privileges. On glibc-based systems, this can trigger the Name Service Switch (NSS) to load shared libraries (e.g., libnss_*.so.2) from the new root directory. If the NEWROOT is writable by an attacker, they can inject a malicious NSS module to execute arbitrary code as root, facilitating a full container escape or privilege escalation.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10327

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-426
Status published
Products (3)
crates.io/coreutils 0crates.io
Uutils/coreutils
uutils/coreutils
Published Apr 22, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 22, 2026