Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding Affecting coreutils package, versions >=0.0.0


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-16297950
  • published26 Apr 2026
  • disclosed23 Apr 2026
  • creditZellic

Introduced: 23 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-35373  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-176  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for coreutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding in the ln process when handling source paths containing non-UTF-8 filename bytes with target-directory forms. An attacker can cause the utility to fail and disrupt automated scripts or system tasks by providing valid but non-UTF-8 filenames, resulting in a non-zero exit code and interruption of operations.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1