Описание
A vulnerability in the rm utility of uutils coreutils allows the bypass of safeguard mechanisms intended to protect the current directory. While the utility correctly refuses to delete . or .., it fails to recognize equivalent paths with trailing slashes, such as ./ or .///. An accidental or malicious execution of rm -rf ./ results in the silent recursive deletion of all contents within the current directory. The command further obscures the data loss by reporting a misleading 'Invalid input' error, which may cause users to miss the critical window for data recovery.
| Релиз | Статус | Примечание |
|---|---|---|
| devel | needed | |
| esm-apps/noble | needed | |
| jammy | DNE | |
| noble | needed | |
| questing | ignored | end of life, was needed |
| resolute | needed | |
| upstream | needed |
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EPSS
5.6 Medium
CVSS3
Связанные уязвимости
A vulnerability in the rm utility of uutils coreutils allows the bypass of safeguard mechanisms intended to protect the current directory. While the utility correctly refuses to delete . or .., it fails to recognize equivalent paths with trailing slashes, such as ./ or .///. An accidental or malicious execution of rm -rf ./ results in the silent recursive deletion of all contents within the current directory. The command further obscures the data loss by reporting a misleading 'Invalid input' error, which may cause users to miss the critical window for data recovery.
A vulnerability in the rm utility of uutils coreutils allows the bypas ...
rm: 'rm -rf ./' (and ./// variants) silently deletes current directory contents, bypassing dot protection
EPSS
5.6 Medium
CVSS3