PT-2026-44197 · Rpm · Rpm

Published 2026-05-28 · Updated 2026-07-06 · CVE-2026-44604

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.0

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions RPM (affected versions not specified)

Description A command injection issue exists in the rpmuncompress utility. When extracting ZIP, 7z, or GEM archive formats to a destination directory, the tool fails to sanitize the top-level folder name before inserting it into a shell command. An attacker can use a specially crafted archive with shell metacharacters in the folder name to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user performing the extraction.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-44604

ECHO-AABB-5650-DEE3

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11193-1

RHSA-2026:28491

Affected Products

Rpm

References · 14

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28491 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-44604 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44604 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2026:11193-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-44604 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44604 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-44604 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44604 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44604 · Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/173500 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cveNotify/164976 · Telegram Post
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460967 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44605 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44604 · Note