CVE-2026-35369
MEDIUMuutils coreutils kill System-wide Process Termination and Denial of Service via Argument Misinterpretation
Title source: cnaDescription
An argument parsing error in the kill utility of uutils coreutils incorrectly interprets kill -1 as a request to send the default signal (SIGTERM) to PID -1. Sending a signal to PID -1 causes the kernel to terminate all processes visible to the caller, potentially leading to a system crash or massive process termination. This differs from GNU coreutils, which correctly recognizes -1 as a signal number in this context and would instead report a missing PID argument.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Patch issue-tracking
patch
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/9700
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.6.0
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0013
EPSS Percentile
2.7%
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
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-20
Status
published
Products (3)
crates.io/coreutils
0 - 0.6.0crates.io
Uutils/coreutils
< 0.6.0
uutils/coreutils
< 0.6.0
Published
Apr 22, 2026
Tracked Since
Apr 22, 2026