CVE-2026-106057

patool before 4.0.6 contains an OS command injection vulnerability on Windows because shellquotent fails to escape cmd.exe metacharacters or embedded double quotes in archive filenames. Attackers can supply crafted filenames like report&calc.gz for single-file formats run with shell=True to execu...

CVE-2026-106057 patool before 4.0.6 OS Command Injection on Windows via shell_quote_nt

patool before 4.0.6 contains an OS command injection vulnerability on Windows because shellquotent fails to escape cmd.exe metacharacters or embedded double quotes in archive filenames. Attackers can supply crafted filenames like report&calc.gz for single-file formats run with shell=True to execu...

CVE-2026-106057

Versions of patool prior to 4.0.6 are vulnerable to an OS command injection vulnerability on Windows . The issue stems from the shell_quote_nt function failing to properly escape cmd.exe metacharacters or embedded double quotes within archive filenames. An attacker can exploit this by providing c...

CVE-2026-106057 patool before 4.0.6 OS Command Injection on Windows via shell_quote_nt

patool before 4.0.6 contains an OS command injection vulnerability on Windows because shellquotent fails to escape cmd.exe metacharacters or embedded double quotes in archive filenames. Attackers can supply crafted filenames like report&calc.gz for single-file formats run with shell=True to execu...

EUVD-2026-94305

patool before 4.0.6 contains an OS command injection vulnerability on Windows because shellquotent fails to escape cmd.exe metacharacters or embedded double quotes in archive filenames. Attackers can supply crafted filenames like report&calc.gz for single-file formats run with shell=True to execu...

Fedora 44 : patool (2026-23dc582dae)

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-23dc582dae advisory. Bump to 4.1.0 rhbz2421500 and rhbz2508373 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus...

Fedora 45 : patool (2026-3a35235bd6)

The remote Fedora 45 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-3a35235bd6 advisory. Bump to 4.1.0 rhbz2421500 and rhbz2508373 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus...

Fedora 46 : patool (2026-d38857d084)

The remote Fedora 46 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-d38857d084 advisory. Automatic update for patool-4.1.0-1.fc46. Changelog Sun Sep 13 2026 Federico Pellegrin - 4.1.0-1 - Bump to 4.1.0 rhbz2421500 and rhbz2508373 Tenable has...

[SECURITY] Fedora 44 Update: patool-4.1.0-1.fc44

Patool is an archive file manager. Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, searched, repacked and compared with patool. The advantage of patool is its simplicity in handling archive files without having to remember a myriad of programs and options. The archive format is...

[SECURITY] Fedora 45 Update: patool-4.1.0-1.fc45

Patool is an archive file manager. Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, searched, repacked and compared with patool. The advantage of patool is its simplicity in handling archive files without having to remember a myriad of programs and options. The archive format is...

CVE-2026-29509

A flaw was found in Patool. A remote attacker could exploit a path traversal vulnerability in the safeextract function by providing a specially crafted archive. This vulnerability arises because a helper function uses an insecure comparison method, allowing malicious paths to bypass security...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-29509

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Patool before 4.0.5 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the safeextract function in patoolib/programs/pytarfile.py when running on Python before 3.12,...

Directory Traversal

Overview patool is a portable archive file manager Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal in the safeextract function in patoolib/programs/pytarfile.py when running on Python versions before 3.12, due to the use of os.path.commonprefix for character-level string...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-29509

Patool before 4.0.5 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the safeextract function in patoolib/programs/pytarfile.py when running on Python before 3.12, where the iswithindirectory helper uses os.path.commonprefix for character-level string comparison instead of path-level comparison, allowi...

CVE-2026-29509

Patool before 4.0.5 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the safeextract function in patoolib/programs/pytarfile.py when running on Python before 3.12, where the iswithindirectory helper uses os.path.commonprefix for character-level string comparison instead of path-level comparison, allowi...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-29509

Patool before 4.0.5 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the safeextract function in patoolib/programs/pytarfile.py when running on Python before 3.12, where the iswithindirectory helper uses os.path.commonprefix for character-level string comparison instead of path-level comparison, allowi...

CVE-2026-29509

Patool before 4.0.5 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the safeextract function in patoolib/programs/pytarfile.py when running on Python before 3.12, where the iswithindirectory helper uses os.path.commonprefix for character-level string comparison instead of path-level comparison, allowi...

CVE-2026-29509

Patool before 4.0.5 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the safeextract function in patoolib/programs/pytarfile.py when running on Python before 3.12, where the iswithindirectory helper uses os.path.commonprefix for character-level string comparison instead of path-level comparison, allowi...

EUVD-2026-39879

Patool before 4.0.5 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the safeextract function in patoolib/programs/pytarfile.py when running on Python before 3.12, where the iswithindirectory helper uses os.path.commonprefix for character-level string comparison instead of path-level comparison, allowi...

CVE-2026-29509 Patool < 4.0.5 Path Traversal via safe_extract() Function

Patool before 4.0.5 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the safeextract function in patoolib/programs/pytarfile.py when running on Python before 3.12, where the iswithindirectory helper uses os.path.commonprefix for character-level string comparison instead of path-level comparison, allowi...