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GHSA-pmfc-4wjj-gmhx
No affected components available
cut routes -z -d '' through a special newline-delimiter path that ignores the -s only-delimited flag, emitting whole undelimited records (plus NUL) that should be suppressed. Pipelines relying on cut -s to drop undelimited records process data that should be filtered.
printf 'abc' | cut -z -d '' -s -f 1 | od -An -tx1 # GNU: no output ; uutils: 61 62 63 00
Zellic private finding (zellic-ext/coreutils-private PR #102). Reported in the Zellic uutils coreutils Program Security Assessment (for Canonical, Jan 2026), audited commit 3a07ffc5a9bd4c283e75afa548ba1f1957bad242.
The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker needs basic access or low-level privileges. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a low impact on the integrity of the data.
Limited exploitation activity has been observed. Close monitoring and planned remediation are recommended.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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