CVE-2026-35345
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.01
BB Relevance:
26/100
Published: 2026-04-22
Modified: 2026-10-26
First seen: 2026-10-29
Status: active
Attack Surface
No Interaction
Conf. Impact
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Local
AC:
High
PR:
Low
UI:
None
S:
Unchanged
C:
High
I:
Low
A:
None
Description
A vulnerability in the tail utility of uutils coreutils allows for the exfiltration of sensitive file contents when using the --follow=name option. Unlike GNU tail, the uutils implementation continues to monitor a path after it has been replaced by a symbolic link, subsequently outputting the contents of the link's target. In environments where a privileged user (e.g., root) monitors a log directory, a local attacker with write access to that directory can replace a log file with a symlink to a sensitive system file (such as /etc/shadow), causing tail to disclose the contents of the sensitive file.
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Exploit
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