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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 22, 2026· Updated Apr 24, 2026

CVE-2026-35368

CVE-2026-35368

Description

A vulnerability exists in the chroot utility of uutils coreutils when using the --userspec option. The utility resolves the user specification via getpwnam() after entering the chroot but before dropping root privileges. On glibc-based systems, this can trigger the Name Service Switch (NSS) to load shared libraries (e.g., libnss_*.so.2) from the new root directory. If the NEWROOT is writable by an attacker, they can inject a malicious NSS module to execute arbitrary code as root, facilitating a full container escape or privilege escalation.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
coreutilscrates.io
<= 0.8.0

Affected products

1

Patches

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