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CVE-2026-35342

uutils coreutils mktemp Insecure Temporary File Placement via Empty TMPDIR

Description

The mktemp utility in uutils coreutils fails to properly handle an empty TMPDIR environment variable. Unlike GNU mktemp, which falls back to /tmp when TMPDIR is an empty string, the uutils implementation treats the empty string as a valid path. This causes temporary files to be created in the current working directory (CWD) instead of the intended secure temporary directory. If the CWD is more permissive or accessible to other users than /tmp, it may lead to unintended information disclosure or unauthorized access to temporary data.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By canonical

  2. · 20 days later

    Published

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2026-35342, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
canonicalCNA (assigner)3.1Low3.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVDNVD · Analyzed3.1Low3.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.13% · top 97% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.

Affected products

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

References

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Sources

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