CVE-2026-44604CWE-78command-injection

CVE-2026-44604

High · published May 28, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.0
EPSS
1%
Percentile
59.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.0 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00919 · 59.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-78 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Published
2026-05-28T12:16Z
References (3)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28491 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44604 · [email protected]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460967 · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 MAY 05:59Z
    Rpm: command injection in rpmuncompress dountar() via unescaped archive top-level directory name in popen() shell command
    cvelistv5