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...

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 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...

Penelope - Shell Handler

Penelope is an advanced shell handler. Its main aim is to replace netcat as shell catcher during exploiting RCE vulnerabilities. It works on Linux and macOS and the only requirement is Python3. It is one script without 3rd party dependencies and hopefully it will stay that way. Among the main...