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CVE-2026-35346: uutils coreutils comm Silent Data Corruption via Lossy UTF-8 Normalization

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-04-22 · updated 2026-10-26
• Weakness: CWE-176

Description

The comm utility in uutils coreutils silently corrupts data by performing lossy UTF-8 conversion on all output lines. The implementation uses String::from_utf8_lossy(), which replaces invalid UTF-8 byte sequences with the Unicode replacement character (U+FFFD). This behavior differs from GNU comm, which processes raw bytes and preserves the original input. This results in corrupted output when the utility is used to compare binary files or files using non-UTF-8 legacy encodings.

Affected products

• Uutils coreutils: before 0.6.0 — fixed in 0.6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Uutils coreutils 0.6.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10192
• https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/10206
• https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.6.0
• https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10192

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