{"id":"GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2","revision":"0aaf61e341a7458986f7157e6fe39ea4","records":[{"revision":"0aaf61e341a7458986f7157e6fe39ea4","observedAt":"2026-10-24T13:19:54.901+00:00","statement":{"source":"osv","id":"GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2","aliases":["CVE-2026-35363"],"title":"rm: 'rm -rf ./' (and ./// variants) silently deletes current directory contents, bypassing dot protection","description":"`rm -rf .` is correctly refused, but `clean_trailing_slashes` normalizes `.///` to `./` while `path_is_current_or_parent_directory` only matches `.`/`..` (and `/.`/`/..`), not `./` or `../`. So `rm -rf ./` recursively deletes the directory's contents and then prints a misleading `cannot remove './': Invalid input`.\n\n**Impact:** all files/subdirectories in the current directory are silently deleted; the misleading error makes users miss the recovery window. Recommendation: handle trailing-slash variants in `path_is_current_or_parent_directory`.\n\n**Remediation:** Acknowledged by Canonical; fixed in commit d0e5af23.\n\n---\n_Reported by Zellic in the *uutils coreutils Program Security Assessment* (prepared for Canonical, Jan 20 2026), audited commit `3a07ffc5a9bd4c283e75afa548ba1f1957bad242`. Finding 3.60. Credit: Zellic._\n\n_Upstream tracking issue: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749 · CVE-2026-35363_","state":0,"publishedAt":"2026-07-06T20:20:56+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-07-06T20:41:13.421481+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"crates.io","name":"uu_rm","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"kind":"introduced","version":"0"},{"kind":"fixed","version":"0.6.0"}]}],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":null}],"metrics":[{"system":"CVSS_V3","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L","score":null,"severity":null},{"system":"Publisher rating","vector":null,"score":null,"severity":"MODERATE"}],"references":["https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/security/advisories/GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2","https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35363","https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749","https://github.com/uutils/coreutils"],"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2","license":"GitHub Advisory Database · CC-BY-4.0","key":"osv:GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2","identifiers":["GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2","CVE-2026-35363"]},"retained":false,"historicalAffected":[]}],"coverage":[]}