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.

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Weaknesses



CWE-78

CVSS impact metrics


CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.8 · High

Information


Source identifier

[email protected]

Vulnerability status

Deferred

Published

2026-10-07T12:17:08.730Z

44 hours ago

Last modified

2026-10-07T16:02:48.300Z

41 hours ago