# CVE-2026-35348

> Vulnerability · severity: **MEDIUM** (CVSS 5.5).

## Description

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.

## Key facts

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-35348
- **Published:** 2026-04-22
- **CVSS severity:** MEDIUM
- **CVSS base score:** 5.5
- **CWE codes:** CWE-248

## Affected products

- `uutils:coreutils`

## Primary sources

- NIST NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35348

## Citation

> AI Analytics. CVE-2026-35348. Retrieved 2026-07-09 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/cve/CVE-2026-35348. Derived from NIST NVD. Licensed CC0.

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