CVE-2026-46643CWE-78

Snappy: Binary path is never shell-escaped due to an inverted is_executable check

High · published June 10, 2026

CVSS v4.0
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Snappy is a PHP library allowing thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from a url or a html page. Prior to version 1.7.1, on POSIX, escapeshellarg(‘/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf’) returns the literal string ‘/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf’ with the single-quote characters included. is_executable() then looks for a file whose actual name contains those quote characters, which essentially never exists. The safe branch is dead code and $command always falls through to the raw, unescaped value. The rest of the arguments (options, input, output) are escaped correctly, so injection has to land in the binary string itself. That happens whenever the binary path is sourced from configuration that is user-influenced, derived from environment variables that ultimately come from request data, or concatenated with any user-controlled fragment. This issue has been patched in version 1.7.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00210 · 10.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-78 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Published
2026-06-10T19:52Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 JUN 19:52Z
    Snappy: Binary path is never shell-escaped due to an inverted is_executable check
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