P4Verified

CVE-2026-106057: patool 0 to before 4.0.6

CVE-2026-106057. CVSS 3.1 base score 7.8 (GitHub Advisory Database).

Affected technology

patool · 0 to before 4.0.6
wummel

Description’s affected range: before 4.0.6

Component: Not specified by the source

Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 4.0): Local · No privileges required · Passive user interaction

What an attacker can do

Attackers can supply crafted filenames like report&calc.gz for single-file formats run with shell=True to execute commands with patool process privileges. Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 4.0 assessment (base score 8.5/10) rates confidentiality, integrity and availability impact as high.

Published 2026-10-07 13:22:55.792238+00:00

CWE: CWE-78
CCR priority: 31.2 /100 (P4)
CVSS 3.1: 7.8 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · GitHub Advisory Database
KEV: no

Provenance

GitHub Advisory Database · Source record · observed 2026-10-07 13:20:35.851963+00:00 UTC
NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-07 13:38:49.647974+00:00 UTC

Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-106057.html