CVE-2026-93658: uutils coreutils

uutils coreutils 0.0.18 before 0.10.0 Privilege Escalation via setuid

CVSS 7.3 HighEPSS 0.0014 · 3rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulnCheck) at 18 Sept 2026, 14:23 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
uutils	coreutils Package name: coreutils https://crates.io pkg:cargo/coreutils	affected 0.0.18 to before 0.10.0 semver unaffected 0.10.0 semver Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2026-93658

CNA

VulnCheck

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-281

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.3	High	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)Used for this record
7.0	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0014, the 3rd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 18 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/uutils/coreutils/security/advisories/GHSA-cgg3-923w-v53m vendor-advisory
github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/13629 patchissue-tracking
github.com/uutils/coreutils/commit/7c87ab04fee8e52d989fb2625568a3eeda1b1f55 patch
github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/0.9.0/src/uu/install/src/install.rs technical-description
github.com/uutils/coreutils product
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/uutils-coreutils-0.0.18-before-0.10.0-privilege-escalation-via-setuid third-party-advisory

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.