The printenv utility in uutils coreutils fails to display environment variables containing invalid UTF-8 byte sequences. While POSIX permits arbitrary bytes in environment strings, the uutils implementation silently skips these entries rather than printing the raw bytes. This vulnerability allows malicious environment variables (e.g., adversarial LD_PRELOAD values) to evade inspection by administrators or security auditing tools, potentially allowing library injection or other environment-based attacks to go undetected.
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| Description | The printenv utility in uutils coreutils fails to display environment variables containing invalid UTF-8 byte sequences. While POSIX permits arbitrary bytes in environment strings, the uutils implementation silently skips these entries rather than printing the raw bytes. This vulnerability allows malicious environment variables (e.g., adversarial LD_PRELOAD values) to evade inspection by administrators or security auditing tools, potentially allowing library injection or other environment-based attacks to go undetected. | |
| Title | uutils coreutils printenv Security Inspection Bypass via UTF-8 Enforcement | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-754 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: canonical
Published:
Updated: 2026-04-22T17:50:09.879Z
Reserved: 2026-04-02T12:58:56.088Z
Link: CVE-2026-35366
Updated: 2026-04-22T17:49:59.355Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-04-22T17:16:40.167
Modified: 2026-04-22T21:23:52.620
Link: CVE-2026-35366
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Updated: 2026-04-22T18:15:15Z