{"id":"GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2","summary":"rm: 'rm -rf ./' (and ./// variants) silently deletes current directory contents, bypassing dot protection","details":"`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_","aliases":["CVE-2026-35363"],"modified":"2026-07-06T20:41:13.421481Z","published":"2026-07-06T20:20:56Z","database_specific":{"nvd_published_at":null,"cwe_ids":["CWE-22","CWE-693"],"severity":"MODERATE","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2026-07-06T20:20:56Z"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/security/advisories/GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35363"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/uutils/coreutils"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"uu_rm","ecosystem":"crates.io","purl":"pkg:cargo/uu_rm"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.6.0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/07/GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2/GHSA-89p7-7cq3-hhr2.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L"}]}