GHSA-f2jv-wjjc-2c94MediumCVSS 5.5

uutils coreutils has an Uncaught Exception When Encountering Valid but Non-UTF-8 Paths

Published
April 22, 2026
Last Modified
April 29, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The sort utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a process panic when using the --files0-from option with inputs containing non-UTF-8 filenames. The implementation enforces UTF-8 encoding and utilizes expect(), causing an immediate crash when encountering valid but non-UTF-8 paths. This diverges from GNU sort, which treats filenames as raw bytes. A local attacker can exploit this to crash the utility and disrupt automated pipelines.

🎯 Affected products1

  • rust/coreutils:<= 0.8.0

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