CVE-2026-106057
HIGH
NVD
CVSS Score
7.8
Severity
HIGH
Published
Oct 07, 2026
Vendor
unknown
Description
patool before 4.0.6 contains an OS command injection vulnerability on Windows because shell_quote_nt 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 execute commands with patool process privileges.