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.

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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.
Title Rpm: command injection in rpmuncompress dountar() via unescaped archive top-level directory name in popen() shell command
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat hummingbird
Redhat openshift
Redhat pdrive Lightspeed
Redhat quarkus
Redhat satellite
Weaknesses CWE-78
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1
cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
cpe:/a:redhat:pdrive_lightspeed:0
cpe:/a:redhat:quarkus:3
cpe:/a:redhat:satellite:6
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat hummingbird
Redhat openshift
Redhat pdrive Lightspeed
Redhat quarkus
Redhat satellite
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-28T05:59:20.978Z

Reserved: 2026-05-07T03:57:03.811Z

Link: CVE-2026-44604

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