Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-35348
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 2.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
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