CVE-2026-35360
MEDIUM
NVD
CVSS Score
6.3
Severity
MEDIUM
Published
Apr 22, 2026
Vendor
unknown
Description
The touch utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition during file creation. When the utility identifies a missing path, it later attempts creation using File::create(), which internally uses O_TRUNC. An attacker can exploit this window to create a file or swap a symlink at the target path, causing touch to truncate an existing file and leading to permanent data loss.