Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding Affecting coreutils package, versions <0.8.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-COREUTILS-16297948
  • published26 Apr 2026
  • disclosed23 Apr 2026
  • creditZellic

Introduced: 23 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-35375  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-176  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade coreutils to version 0.8.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding in the split process when handling non-UTF-8 prefix or suffix inputs. An attacker can cause output files to be created with incorrect names by supplying non-UTF-8 encoded values, potentially resulting in filename collisions, broken automation, or misdirection of output data.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1