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GHSA-mh5c-xrmh-m794

uutils coreutils has an Untrusted Search Path

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2026-35368

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
crates.io coreutils <= 0.8.0 no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

A vulnerability exists in the chroot utility of uutils coreutils when using the --userspec option. The utility resolves the user specification via getpwnam() after entering the chroot but before dropping root privileges. On glibc-based systems, this can trigger the Name Service Switch (NSS) to load shared libraries (e.g., libnss_*.so.2) from the new root directory. If the NEWROOT is writable by an attacker, they can inject a malicious NSS module to execute arbitrary code as root, facilitating a full container escape or privilege escalation.

References

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