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.
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| 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. | |
| Title | patool before 4.0.6 OS Command Injection on Windows via shell_quote_nt | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-78 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-07T14:43:03.949Z
Reserved: 2026-10-06T14:14:17.255Z
Link: CVE-2026-106057
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-07T12:17:08.730
Modified: 2026-10-07T12:17:08.730
Link: CVE-2026-106057
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-10-07T13:30:17Z
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