# CVE-2026-35363

> Vulnerability · severity: **MEDIUM** (CVSS 5.6).

## Description

A vulnerability in the rm utility of uutils coreutils allows the bypass of safeguard mechanisms intended to protect the current directory. While the utility correctly refuses to delete . or .., it fails to recognize equivalent paths with trailing slashes, such as ./ or .///. An accidental or malicious execution of rm -rf ./ results in the silent recursive deletion of all contents within the current directory. The command further obscures the data loss by reporting a misleading 'Invalid input' error, which may cause users to miss the critical window for data recovery.

## Key facts

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-35363
- **Published:** 2026-04-22
- **CVSS severity:** MEDIUM
- **CVSS base score:** 5.6
- **CWE codes:** CWE-22

## Affected products

- `uutils:coreutils`

## Primary sources

- NIST NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35363

## Citation

> AI Analytics. CVE-2026-35363. Retrieved 2026-07-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/cve/CVE-2026-35363. Derived from NIST NVD. Licensed CC0.

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