GHSA-pmfc-4wjj-gmhx
cut: -s ignored in -z -d '' newline-delimiter mode
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
`cut` routes `-z -d ''` through a special newline-delimiter path that ignores the `-s` only-delimited flag, emitting whole undelimited records (plus NUL) that should be suppressed. Pipelines relying on `cut -s` to drop undelimited records process data that should be filtered.
```
printf 'abc' | cut -z -d '' -s -f 1 | od -An -tx1 # GNU: no output ; uutils: 61 62 63 00
```
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_Zellic private finding (zellic-ext/coreutils-private PR #102). Reported in the Zellic *uutils coreutils Program Security Assessment* (for Canonical, Jan 2026), audited commit `3a07ffc5a9bd4c283e75afa548ba1f1957bad242`._
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/security/advisories/GHSA-pmfc-4wjj-gmhx
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35381
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/11394
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/commit/483f13e91830c468262aa1e010e753d6ae99c898
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.8.0