CVE-2026-44604
HIGHRpm: command injection in rpmuncompress dountar() via unescaped archive top-level directory name in popen() shell command
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vdb Entry, X_Refsource_Redhat vdb-entry
x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44604
Issue Tracking, X_Refsource_Redhat issue-tracking
x_refsource_redhat
RHBZ#2460967
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460967
Scores
CVSS v3
7.0
EPSS
0.0047
EPSS Percentile
37.1%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-78
Status
published
Products (10)
Red Hat/Pen Drive Powered by Red Hat Lightspeed
Red Hat/Red Hat build of Quarkus Native builder
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat/Red Hat Hardened Images
Red Hat/Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Red Hat/Red Hat Satellite 6
Published
May 28, 2026
Tracked Since
May 28, 2026