CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-50558

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2026-07-29 Modified 2026-10-23 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-07-29
Last modified
2026-10-23
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Description

Penelope Shell Handler is a post-exploitation shell handler for authorized security testing. Prior to 0.20.0, the Unix download() implementation in penelope.py used tar.extractall(local_download_folder) on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious or compromised session to write files outside the intended download directory and potentially overwrite ~/.penelope/peneloperc. This issue is fixed in version 0.20.0.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References