penelope

Penelope is a modern shell handler for penetration testers and CTF players. It provides a more capable alternative to basic netcat listeners, adding automatic PTY upgrades, session management, logging, file transfers and helper modules. Table of Contents 📥 Installation ⚙️ Features 🖥️ Session...

penelope

Penelope 是一款面向渗透测试人员和 CTF 玩家的现代化 Shell 处理器。它提供了比基本 netcat 监听器更强大的替代方案，增加了自动 PTY 升级、会话管理、日志记录、文件传输和辅助模块功能。 目录 📥 安装 ⚙️ 功能特性 🖥️ 会话功能 🌍 全局功能 🧩 模块 💻 使用方法 ▶️ 典型用法示例 🎬 随机用法演示 🖲️ 主菜单命令 ⚡ 命令行选项 🔒 安全注意事项 📝 待办事项 ❓ 常见问题 🙌 致谢早期贡献者 安装 Penelope 运行于类 Unix 系统，包括 Linux、macOS 和 FreeBSD，且需要 Python 3.6+ 。 Kali Linux...

Penelope unsafe tar extraction allows arbitrary local file write via crafted session archive

SummaryPenelope versions prior to 0.19.3 extracted tar archives received from remote sessions without validating archive member paths. When using the affected Unix download path, a malicious or compromised remote session could return a crafted tar archive containing path traversal entries, such a...

CVE-2026-50558

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.extractalllocaldownloadfolder on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious or...

Directory Traversal

Overview penelope-shell-handler is a Post-exploitation shell handler for authorized security testing Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal in the download process when extracting tar archives from a remote session without validating archive member paths. An...

GHSA-F42X-P2MX-HM8R Penelope unsafe tar extraction allows arbitrary local file write via crafted session archive

Summary Penelope versions prior to 0.19.3 extracted tar archives received from remote sessions without validating archive member paths. When using the affected Unix download path, a malicious or compromised remote session could return a crafted tar archive containing path traversal entries, such ...

EUVD-2026-50395

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.extractalllocaldownloadfolder on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious or...

CVE-2026-50558

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.extractalllocaldownloadfolder on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious or...

CVE-2026-50558

Penelope Shell Handler vulnerability CVE-2026-50558 affects the Unix download() implementation in penelope.py. Prior to version 0.20.0, tar.extractall(local_download_folder) on tar archives from remote sessions did not validate member paths, allowing a malicious or compromised session to write fi...

CVE-2026-50558 Penelope unsafe tar extraction allows arbitrary local file write via crafted session archive

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.extractalllocaldownloadfolder on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious or...

CVE-2026-50558 Penelope unsafe tar extraction allows arbitrary local file write via crafted session archive

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.extractalllocaldownloadfolder on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious or...

CVE-2026-50558: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

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.extractalllocaldownloadfolder on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious or...

PT-2026-65830

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.extractalllocal download folder on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious ...