CVE-2026-35366

mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.002 · 6 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.17% (6th) EPSS
CVSS 4.4 · medium
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cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The printenv utility in uutils coreutils fails to display environment variables containing invalid UTF-8 byte sequences. While POSIX permits arbitrary bytes in environment strings, the uutils implementation silently skips these entries rather than printing the raw bytes. This vulnerability allows malicious environment variables (e.g., adversarial LD_PRELOAD values) to evade inspection by administrators or security auditing tools, potentially allowing library injection or other environment-based attacks to go undetected.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.4
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.14.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.14.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · security@ubuntu.comexploitability 1.8 · impact 2.5
v3.14.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · OSV
v3.14.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
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affected products (4)

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advisories (2)

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  • GHSA-7259-cwhx-3xx3Duplicate Advisory: uutils coreutils has an Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions2026-04-22ghsa · osvUS

    ### Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-p7h3-7q52-72w8. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ### Original Description The printenv utility in uutils coreutils fails to display environment variables containing invalid UTF-8 byte sequences. While POSIX permits arbitrary bytes in environment strings, the uutils implementation silently skips these entries rather than printing the raw bytes. This vulnerability allows malicious environment variables (e.g., adversarial LD_PRELOAD values) to evade inspection by administrators or security auditing tools, potentially allowing library injection or other environment-based attacks to go undetected.

  • GHSA-p7h3-7q52-72w8printenv: environment variables with invalid UTF-8 are silently skipped (evades inspection)2026-07-06ghsa · osvUS

    The printenv utility in uutils coreutils fails to display environment variables containing invalid UTF-8 byte sequences. While POSIX permits arbitrary bytes in environment strings, the uutils implementation silently skips these entries rather than printing the raw bytes. This vulnerability allows malicious environment variables (e.g., adversarial LD_PRELOAD values) to evade inspection by administrators or security auditing tools, potentially allowing library injection or other environment-based attacks to go undetected. --- _Zellic finding 3.66. Reported in the Zellic *uutils coreutils Program Security Assessment* (for Canonical, Jan 2026), audited commit `3a07ffc5a9bd4c283e75afa548ba1f1957bad242`._

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published 2026-04-22modified 2026-10-26
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