CVE-2026-35376

MEDIUMNVD 4.54.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 4.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-04-22. NVD baseline CVSS 4.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
4.5
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 4.5Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability exists in the chcon utility of uutils coreutils during recursive operations. The implementation resolves recursive targets using a fresh path lookup (via fts_accpath) rather than binding the traversal and label application to the specific directory state encountered during traversal. Because these operations are not anchored to file descriptors, a local attacker with write access to a directory tree can exploit timing-sensitive rename or symbolic link races to redirect a privileged recursive relabeling operation to unintended files or directories. This vulnerability breaks the hardening expectations for SELinux administration workflows and can lead to the unauthorized modification of security labels on sensitive system objects.

CVSS v3
4.5
EG Score
4.5(medium)
EPSS
0.5%
KEV
Not listed

Published

April 22, 2026

Last Modified

May 4, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated May 4, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

Release 0.8.0 · uutils/coreutils · GitHub

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.8.0
generic

chcon: anchor recursive relabel resolution to traversal dirfd by can1357 · Pull Request #11402 · uutils/coreutils · GitHub

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/11402

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
rustcoreutils—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
crates.io(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
coreutils———

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 6× in last 7d / 26× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-35376?
CVE-2026-35376 is a medium vulnerability published on April 22, 2026. A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability exists in the chcon utility of uutils coreutils during recursive operations. The implementation resolves recursive targets using a fresh path lookup (via fts_accpath) rather than binding the traversal and label application to the specific…
When was CVE-2026-35376 disclosed?
CVE-2026-35376 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on April 22, 2026, with the most recent update on May 4, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-35376 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-35376 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.5% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-35376?
CVE-2026-35376 has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-35376?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-35376, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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