{"id":"CVE-2026-35363","aliases":["GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2"],"title":"rm: 'rm -rf ./' (and ./// variants) silently deletes current directory contents, bypassing dot protection","summary":"rm: 'rm -rf ./' (and ./// variants) silently deletes current directory contents, bypassing dot protection","severity":"medium","cvss":5.6,"cwe":["CWE-22","CWE-693"],"vendor":"uu_rm","product":"uu_rm","ecosystem":"rust","affected":["uu_rm < 0.6.0"],"patched":["uu_rm 0.6.0"],"published":"2026-07-06","updated":"2026-07-06","source":"GHSA","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/security/advisories/GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35363"},{"url":"https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2"}],"tags":["ghsa","rust"],"epss":0.00166,"epssPercentile":0.06226,"ingestedAt":"2026-07-06T20:46:12.671Z","slug":"CVE-2026-35363","body":"## Overview\n\n`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_\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `uu_rm < 0.6.0`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to a patched release:\n\n- `uu_rm 0.6.0`","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":31,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":30.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}