CVE-2026-35370 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: canonical
Reserved: 02.04.2026 Published: 22.04.2026 Updated: 22.04.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.4

Product Status

Vendor Uutils
Product coreutils
Versions Default: affected

Credits

  • Zellic finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-180: Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels