[ CVE-2026-106057 · Published 7 Oct 2026 ]
Vulnerability in wummel patool
CVSS 7.8
EPSS <1%No fix listed yet
[ Description ]Official 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.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.