Improper Preservation of Permissions Affecting coreutils package, versions <0.6.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-COREUTILS-16297966
  • published26 Apr 2026
  • disclosed23 Apr 2026
  • creditZellic

Introduced: 23 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-35361  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-281  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade coreutils to version 0.6.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Preservation of Permissions in the mknod process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to device nodes by exploiting improper handling of SELinux security labels and incomplete cleanup, which results in device nodes being left with incorrect default contexts.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1