CVE-2026-105841
HighCVSS 7.5Summary
lrzsz before 0.13.0 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in the lrz receive utility's pipe mode that allows remote senders to execute commands by supplying crafted filenames. When lrz runs under a suffixed name such as lrztar, procheader() in src/lrz.c passes the unescaped ZMODEM/YMODEM filename to popen(), so shell metacharacters execute as the receiving user.
Risk Assessment
A remote attacker can execute arbitrary OS commands as the receiving user, leading to account compromise and potentially full system compromise. However, this requires the victim to use lrz in pipe mode with a suffixed name.
Recommendation
Update lrzsz to version 0.13.0 or later, which fixes this vulnerability. Avoid using lrz in pipe mode with untrusted sources.
Other vulnerabilities in lrzsz
See all- CVE-2026-105842Medium
lrzsz before 0.13.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in procheader() of the lrz receive utility when copying overlong sender-supplied filenames into Pathname. Malicious ZMODEM senders can supply filenames up to 8192 bytes, overflowing the buffer via sprintf() in pipe mode or strcpy() to corrupt heap memory and crash lrz.
- CVE-2026-105840High
lrzsz before 0.13.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the lrz receive utility's restricted mode that allows malicious ZMODEM senders to write files outside the current directory using absolute pathnames. Because checkpath() in src/lrz.c only rejects '../' sequences unless built with --enable-pubdir, attackers can send files named with absolute paths to overwrite any file writable by the receiving user.
Original NVD description (English source)
lrzsz before 0.13.0 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in the lrz receive utility's pipe mode that allows remote senders to execute commands by supplying crafted filenames. When lrz runs under a suffixed name such as lrztar, procheader() in src/lrz.c passes the unescaped ZMODEM/YMODEM filename to popen(), so shell metacharacters execute as the receiving user.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS