{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00017497","kind":"vulnerability","title":"Duplicate Advisory: uutils coreutils allows users to bypass the --preserve-root safety mechanism","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"withdrawn","identifiers":["GHSA-9gqx-53gp-c8g3"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for coreutils. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-0b7744121ca92a67fc0e022f6955b0ed"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[{"kind":"CVSS","as_of":"2026-07-06T17:41:39.000Z","value":"7.3 high","meaning":"GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.","source_id":"sr-0b7744121ca92a67fc0e022f6955b0ed"}],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-0b7744121ca92a67fc0e022f6955b0ed","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9gqx-53gp-c8g3","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-9gqx-53gp-c8g3","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-04T23:36:01.427Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-0b7744121ca92a67fc0e022f6955b0ed"],"technology":"coreutils","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Duplicate Advisory\nThis advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-4c7q-4928-8445. This link is maintained to preserve external references.\n\n### Original Description\nA vulnerability in the chmod utility of uutils coreutils allows users to bypass the --preserve-root safety mechanism. The implementation only validates if the target path is literally / and does not canonicalize the path. An attacker or accidental user can use path variants such as /../ or symbolic links to execute destructive recursive operations (e.g., chmod -R 000) on the entire root filesystem, leading to system-wide permission loss and potential complete system breakdown.","public_affected_ranges":["< 0.6.0"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-05T19:10:21.398Z","source_updated_at":"2026-07-06T17:41:39.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-04-22T18:31:44.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-04T23:36:01.427Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}