CVE-2026-44604 — Rpm: command injection in rpmuncompress dountar() via unescaped archive top-level directory name in popen() shell command
A command injection vulnerability was discovered in the `rpmuncompress` utility of RPM. When extracting certain archive formats (ZIP, 7z, GEM) to a specified destination directo…
Published: 2026-05-28 · CVSS: 7.0 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7