A vulnerability in the rm utility of uutils coreutils allows the bypass of safeguard mechanisms intended to protect the current directory. While the utility correctly refuses to delete . or .., it fails to recognize equivalent paths with tr…
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euvd · EUVD-2026-25008
PublishedA vulnerability in the rm utility of uutils coreutils allows the bypass of safeguard mechanisms intended to protect the current directory. While the utility correctly refuses to delete . or .., it fails to recognize equivalent paths with trailing slashes, such as ./ or .///. An accidental or malicious execution of rm -rf ./ results in the silent recursive deletion of all contents within the current directory. The command further obscures the data loss by reporting a misleading 'Invalid input' error, which may cause users to miss the critical window for data recovery.
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datePublished: Apr 22, 2026, 4:08:36 PM
dateUpdated: Apr 22, 2026, 5:24:11 PM
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- Apr 22, 2026, 5:24:11 PM (timezone not stated)
- Observed here
- 28 Oct 2026 04:55:18 UTC
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EUVD CVSS 3.1 · 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L