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CVE-2026-35346
LOW3.3
Description
The comm utility in uutils coreutils silently corrupts data by performing lossy UTF-8 conversion on all output lines. The implementation uses String::from_utf8_lossy(), which replaces invalid UTF-8 byte sequences with the Unicode replacement character (U+FFFD). This behavior differs from GNU comm, which processes raw bytes and preserves the original input. This results in corrupted output when the utility is used to compare binary files or files using non-UTF-8 legacy encodings.
CVE Details
CVSS v3.1 Score3.3
SeverityLOW
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack VectorLOCAL
ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
Published4/22/2026
Last Modified4/22/2026
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-176
References
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10192(security@ubuntu.com)
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/10206(security@ubuntu.com)
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.6.0(security@ubuntu.com)
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10192(134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
IOC Correlations
No correlations recorded
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