CVE-2026-35366
mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.002 · 6 %ileEUUSEPSS · 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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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### Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-p7h3-7q52-72w8.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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references (7)
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- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35366cnnvd
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9701enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/9728enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.6.0enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9701ExploitIssue Trackingnvd
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/9728Issue TrackingPatchnvd
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.6.0Release Notesnvd
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