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Medium · 4.4 CVE-2026-35370 EUVD-2026-25018GHSA-47c7-qrm7-mqw7GHSA-q94g-3gcf-66x7

uutils coreutils id Incorrect Access-Control Decisions via Misrepresented Group Membership

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

Description

The id utility in uutils coreutils miscalculates the groups= section of its output. The implementation uses a user's real GID instead of their effective GID to compute the group list, leading to potentially divergent output compared to GNU coreutils. Because many scripts and automated processes rely on the output of id to make security-critical access-control or permission decisions, this discrepancy can lead to unauthorized access or security misconfigurations.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Uutils coreutils — —

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 26.04 LTS rust-coreutils No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 rust-coreutils No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rust-coreutils No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling uutils 0.8.0-r2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io uu_id < 0.6.0 0.6.0 GHSA-47c7-qrm7-mqw7

References