CVE-2026-44604 (GCVE-0-2026-44604)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-28 05:59 – Updated: 2026-09-01 14:17
VLAI
Title
Rpm: command injection in rpmuncompress dountar() via unescaped archive top-level directory name in popen() shell command
Summary
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.
Severity
7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-28 12:15 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1085 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44604 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460967 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images Unaffected: 6.0.1-6.1.hum1 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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Date Public
2026-05-28 05:52
Credits
This issue was discovered by Found by AISLE in partnership with Red Hat.
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  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC

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