A command injection vulnerability was discovered in the `rpmuncompress` utility of RPM. When extracting certain archive formats (ZIP, 7z, GEM) to a specified destination directory, the tool inserts the archive's top-level folder name into a shell command without properly sanitizing it. A specially crafted archive containing shell metacharacters in its folder name can execute arbitrary commands as the user running the extraction.
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| Description | A command injection vulnerability was discovered in the `rpmuncompress` utility of RPM. When extracting certain archive formats (ZIP, 7z, GEM) to a specified destination directory, the tool inserts the archive's top-level folder name into a shell command without properly sanitizing it. A specially crafted archive containing shell metacharacters in its folder name can execute arbitrary commands as the user running the extraction. | |
| Title | Rpm: command injection in rpmuncompress dountar() via unescaped archive top-level directory name in popen() shell command | |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat hummingbird Redhat openshift Redhat pdrive Lightspeed Redhat quarkus Redhat satellite |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-78 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1 cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 cpe:/a:redhat:pdrive_lightspeed:0 cpe:/a:redhat:quarkus:3 cpe:/a:redhat:satellite:6 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat hummingbird Redhat openshift Redhat pdrive Lightspeed Redhat quarkus Redhat satellite |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2026-05-28T05:59:20.978Z
Updated: 2026-05-28T12:15:33.073Z
Reserved: 2026-05-07T03:57:03.811Z
Link: CVE-2026-44604
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-28T08:16:35.280
Modified: 2026-05-28T08:16:35.280
Link: CVE-2026-44604