Recommended action

Update uu_rm to 0.6.0 if you use the affected versions. Test the change in a non-production environment first.

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What this means

rm: 'rm -rf ./' (and ./// variants) silently deletes current directory contents, bypassing dot protection affects uu_rm (rust). Severity is medium. `rm -rf .` is correctly refused, but `clean_trailing_slashes` normalizes `.///` to `./` while `path_is_current_or_parent_directory` only matches `.`/`..` (and `/.`/`/..`), not `./` or `../`. So `rm -rf ./` recursively deletes the directory's contents and then prints a misleading `cannot remove './': Invalid input`. **Impact:** all files/subdirectories in the current directory are silently deleted; the misleading error makes users miss the recovery window. Recommendation: handle trailing-slash variants in `path_is_current_or_parent_directory`. **Remediation:** Acknowledged by Canonical; fixed in commit d0e5af23. --- _Reported by Zellic in the *uutils coreutils Program Security Assessment* (prepared for Canonical, Jan 20 2026), audited commit `3a07ffc5a9bd4c283e75afa548ba1f1957bad242`. Finding 3.60. Credit: Zellic._ _Upstream tracking issue: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749 · CVE-2026-35363_

AI coding agents often install or upgrade packages automatically in rust. A medium vulnerability in a dependency can be pulled into a project through a normal install or update without a human reviewing the change, expanding the blast radius from a single package to every agent workspace that depends on it.

Affected software

Recommended action

Update uu_rm to 0.6.0 if you use the affected versions. Test the change in a non-production environment first.

hol-guard supply-chain scan

What this means

rm: 'rm -rf ./' (and ./// variants) silently deletes current directory contents, bypassing dot protection affects uu_rm (rust). Severity is medium. `rm -rf .` is correctly refused, but `clean_trailing_slashes` normalizes `.///` to `./` while `path_is_current_or_parent_directory` only matches `.`/`..` (and `/.`/`/..`), not `./` or `../`. So `rm -rf ./` recursively deletes the directory's contents and then prints a misleading `cannot remove './': Invalid input`. **Impact:** all files/subdirectories in the current directory are silently deleted; the misleading error makes users miss the recovery window. Recommendation: handle trailing-slash variants in `path_is_current_or_parent_directory`. **Remediation:** Acknowledged by Canonical; fixed in commit d0e5af23. --- _Reported by Zellic in the *uutils coreutils Program Security Assessment* (prepared for Canonical, Jan 20 2026), audited commit `3a07ffc5a9bd4c283e75afa548ba1f1957bad242`. Finding 3.60. Credit: Zellic._ _Upstream tracking issue: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9749 · CVE-2026-35363_

AI coding agents often install or upgrade packages automatically in rust. A medium vulnerability in a dependency can be pulled into a project through a normal install or update without a human reviewing the change, expanding the blast radius from a single package to every agent workspace that depends on it.

Affected software