FKIE_CVE-2026-50558

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-29 16:17 - Updated: 2026-07-29 18:16
Severity
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
Summary
Penelope Shell Handler is a post-exploitation shell handler for authorized security testing. Prior to 0.20.0, the Unix download() implementation in penelope.py used tar.extractall(local_download_folder) on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious or compromised session to write files outside the intended download directory and potentially overwrite ~/.penelope/peneloperc. This issue is fixed in version 0.20.0.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/brightio/penelope/commit/a040afb5db32c7e80b5e8a2f9b2164cf911cfa62
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/brightio/penelope/releases/tag/v0.20.0
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/brightio/penelope/security/advisories/GHSA-f42x-p2mx-hm8r
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/brightio/penelope/security/advisories/GHSA-f42x-p2mx-hm8r
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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  "lastModified": "2026-07-29T18:16:53.640",
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