CVE-2026-35363Medium· 5.6▾ Sunlitrm: 'rm -rf ./' (and ./// variants) silently deletes current directory contents, bypassing dot protection
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 30.8 · likelihood 0 · exploitation 0
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Disclosed via GHSA
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0.2% → 0.2%
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.
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.
Remediation: Acknowledged by Canonical; fixed in commit d0e5af23.
Reported by Zellic in the uutils coreutils Program Security Assessment (prepared for Canonical, Jan 20 2026), audited commit 3a07ffc5a9bd4c283e75afa548ba1f1957bad242. Finding 3.60. Credit: Zellic.
Upstream tracking issue: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749 · CVE-2026-35363
uu_rm < 0.6.0Upgrade to a patched release:
uu_rm 0.6.0Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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