CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-85672

CriticalCVSS 9.8
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

zerox 1.1.20 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in the file download mechanism where the temporary file extension derived from document URLs is interpolated unsanitized into shell commands. Attackers can craft URLs with malicious extensions to execute arbitrary OS commands.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes remote arbitrary command execution on the server, potentially leading to full system compromise and data confidentiality breaches.

Recommendation

Immediately sanitize file extensions and avoid interpolation into shell commands, and upgrade to the latest version of zerox.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

zerox 1.1.20 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in the file download mechanism where the temporary file extension derived from document URLs is interpolated unsanitized into shell commands executed by poppler utilities. Attackers can craft document URLs with malicious file extensions containing command substitution syntax to execute arbitrary OS commands before document processing occurs.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS