GHSA-xf75-659h-cgg5
Suggest an improvement- Source
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xf75-659h-cgg5
- Import Source
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/04/GHSA-xf75-659h-cgg5/GHSA-xf75-659h-cgg5.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-xf75-659h-cgg5
- Aliases
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- CVE-2026-35345
- Related
- Published
- 2026-04-22T18:31:44Z
- Modified
- 2026-06-02T13:29:24.490695832Z
- Severity
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- 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- uutils coreutils has a Link Following Issue
- Details
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A vulnerability in the tail utility of uutils coreutils allows for the exfiltration of sensitive file contents when using the --follow=name option. Unlike GNU tail, the uutils implementation continues to monitor a path after it has been replaced by a symbolic link, subsequently outputting the contents of the link's target. In environments where a privileged user (e.g., root) monitors a log directory, a local attacker with write access to that directory can replace a log file with a symlink to a sensitive system file (such as /etc/shadow), causing tail to disclose the contents of the sensitive file.
- Database specific
{ "github_reviewed": true, "nvd_published_at": "2026-04-22T17:16:36Z", "severity": "MODERATE", "github_reviewed_at": "2026-04-29T22:58:55Z", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-59" ] }- References
Affected packages
crates.io / coreutils
Package
- Name
- coreutils
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- Purl
- pkg:cargo/coreutils