# CVE-2026-35362

> Vulnerability · severity: **LOW** (CVSS 3.6).

## Description

The safe_traversal module in uutils coreutils, which provides protection against Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) symlink races using file-descriptor-relative syscalls, is incorrectly limited to Linux targets. On other Unix-like systems such as macOS and FreeBSD, the utility fails to utilize these protections, leaving directory traversal operations vulnerable to symlink race conditions.

## Key facts

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-35362
- **Published:** 2026-04-22
- **CVSS severity:** LOW
- **CVSS base score:** 3.6
- **CWE codes:** CWE-367

## Affected products

- `uutils:coreutils`

## Primary sources

- NIST NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35362

## Citation

> AI Analytics. CVE-2026-35362. Retrieved 2026-07-18 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/cve/CVE-2026-35362. Derived from NIST NVD. Licensed CC0.

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