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Permalink CVE-2026-35368
7.2 HIGH
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): LOCAL
  • Attack complexity (AC): HIGH
  • Privileges required (PR): LOW
  • User interaction (UI): NONE
  • Scope (S): CHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): HIGH
  • Integrity impact (I): HIGH
  • Availability impact (A): HIGH
created 6 days, 11 hours ago Activity log
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uutils coreutils chroot Local Privilege Escalation and chroot Escape in via Name Service Switch (NSS) Injection

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.

References

Affected products

coreutils

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.coreutils

GNU Core Utilities

  • nixos-unstable 9.10
    • nixpkgs-unstable 9.10
    • nixos-unstable-small 9.10
  • nixos-25.11 9.8
    • nixos-25.11-small 9.8
    • nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 9.8