CVE-2026-35359EPSS p2.3%
CVE-2026-35359CVE-2026-35359
uutils / coreutils
Description
A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the cp utility of uutils coreutils allows an attacker to bypass no-dereference intent. The utility checks if a source path is a symbolic link using path-based metadata but subsequently opens it without the O_NOFOLLOW flag. An attacker with concurrent write access can swap a regular file for a symbolic link during this window, causing a privileged cp process to copy the contents of arbitrary sensitive files into a destination controlled by the attacker.
Scoring
| CVSS | 4.7 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| EPSS | 0.13% probability of exploitation · percentile 2.3% · 2026-10-27T12:03:15Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-26 |