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Medium · 4.4 CVE-2026-35366 EUVD-2026-25014GHSA-7259-cwhx-3xx3GHSA-p7h3-7q52-72w8

uutils coreutils printenv Security Inspection Bypass via UTF-8 Enforcement

Published Apr 22, 2026 · Updated Apr 22, 2026 · Assigned by canonical

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Uutils coreutils < 0.6.0 0.6.0

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 rust-coreutils 0.6.0-1 —
Debian 13 rust-coreutils No fix yet —
Debian 12 rust-coreutils No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 rust-coreutils No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rust-coreutils No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io uu_printenv < 0.6.0 0.6.0 GHSA-p7h3-7q52-72w8

References