GHSA-mh5c-xrmh-m794HighCVSS 7.8

uutils coreutils has an Untrusted Search Path

Published
April 22, 2026
Last Modified
April 30, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A vulnerability exists in the chroot utility of uutils coreutils when using the --userspec option. The utility resolves the user specification via getpwnam() after entering the chroot but before dropping root privileges. On glibc-based systems, this can trigger the Name Service Switch (NSS) to load shared libraries (e.g., libnss_*.so.2) from the new root directory. If the NEWROOT is writable by an attacker, they can inject a malicious NSS module to execute arbitrary code as root, facilitating a full container escape or privilege escalation.

🎯 Affected products1

  • rust/coreutils:<= 0.8.0

🔗 References (3)