VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-35369

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.13%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-04-22
Last modified2026-10-25
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

An argument parsing error in the kill utility of uutils coreutils incorrectly interprets kill -1 as a request to send the default signal (SIGTERM) to PID -1. Sending a signal to PID -1 causes the kernel to terminate all processes visible to the caller, potentially leading to a system crash or massive process termination. This differs from GNU coreutils, which correctly recognizes -1 as a signal number in this context and would instead report a missing PID argument.

Weakness classification

  • security@ubuntu.com: CWE-20

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