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CVE-2026-106057

patool before 4.0.6 OS Command Injection on Windows via shell_quote_nt

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.0.6
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • wummel patool

    fixed in 4.0.6

References 4

GitHub · wummel/patool

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