Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding Affecting coreutils package, versions <0.6.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-COREUTILS-16297986
  • published26 Apr 2026
  • disclosed23 Apr 2026
  • creditZellic

Introduced: 23 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-35346  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-176  (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 Handling of Unicode Encoding in the comm process. An attacker can cause data to be silently altered by providing input files containing invalid UTF-8 byte sequences, which are replaced with the Unicode replacement character during output.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1