uutils coreutils mv Silent Ownership Loss in Cross-Device Operations
The mv utility in uutils coreutils fails to preserve file ownership during moves across different filesystem boundaries. The utility falls back to a copy-and-delete routine that creates the destination file using the caller's UID/GID rather than the source's metadata. This flaw breaks backups and migrations, causing fi…
Severity medium: primary CNA CVSS 4.2 v3.1 (worst CNA-provided scenario) Not listed in this KEV snapshot. Forecast present in this snapshot.
Published 2026-04-22T16:08:04.936Z. Updated 2026-04-22T18:05:16.431Z.