CVE-2026-44604 - Rpm: command injection in rpmuncompress dountar() via unescaped archive top-level directory name in popen() shell command

CVE-2026-44604 - Rpm: command injection in rpmuncompress dountar() via unescaped archive top-level directory name in popen() shell command

https://cvefeed.io/rssfeed/latest.atom / Thu, 05/28/2026 - 11:25
CVE ID :CVE-2026-44604
Published : May 28, 2026, 8:16 a.m. | 44 minutes ago
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.
Severity: 7.0 | HIGH
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