CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-106057
8.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-10-07
- Last modified
- 2026-10-07
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.5 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
Description
patool before 4.0.6 contains an OS command injection vulnerability on Windows because shell_quote_nt fails to escape cmd.exe metacharacters or embedded double quotes in archive filenames. Attackers can supply crafted filenames like report&calc.gz for single-file formats run with shell=True to execute commands with patool process privileges.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- https://github.com/wummel/patool github.com
- https://github.com/wummel/patool/blob/4.0.5/patoolib/util.py#L110-L116 github.com
- https://github.com/wummel/patool/commit/592f35761f428afbcde2888ecd3cc4af43881aeb github.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/patool-before-4.0.6-os-command-injection-on-windows-via-shell-quote-nt www.vulncheck.com