CVE-2026-35381 is a logic flaw in the Rust-based uutils coreutils implementation of the cut utility. The issue occurs when cut is invoked with zero-terminated input (-z or --zero-terminated), an empty delimiter specified with -d '', and the suppress-undelimited-records option (-s or --only-delimited). In affected versions, this option combination is routed through a specialized newline-delimiter handling path that fails to honor the only_delimited suppression state. As a result, records that should be suppressed under GNU/POSIX-compatible behavior are instead emitted in full, followed by a trailing NUL byte. The provided context identifies the vulnerable code path in the uu_cut implementation, specifically the cut_fields_newline_char_delim function in src/uu/cut/src/cut.rs, where mismatched parameter/configuration handling caused the utility to behave as though the -s flag were unset. Affected versions are described as uutils coreutils prior to 0.8.0.
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