CVE-2026-110639
@mborne/extract before 0.2.1 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows attackers…
- Risk score
- 81/100
- CVSS
- 9.8 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 2.7%
- Published
- 14 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- @mborne/extract before 0.2.1 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows attackers to execute commands by supplying shell metacharacters in archivePath or targetDir options. Attackers controlling these values passed to extract() can inject commands into unquoted shelljs exec() strings in the unzip, 7z, …
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Upgrade the product to 0.2.1 or later.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Red
- CVSS 9.8 critical
- Remotely exploitable without logging in
References
- https://github.com/mborne/node-extract/blob/v0.2.0/src/extractor/unzip.js#L17-L19
- https://github.com/mborne/node-extract/commit/585e5b29657379e73c04f6f950ea8dc5319f8ae1
- https://github.com/mborne/node-extract/pull/8
- https://github.com/mborne/node-extract/releases/tag/v0.2.1
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/mborne-extract-before-0.2.1-os-command-injection-via-archivepath-and-targetdir
Original description
@mborne/extract before 0.2.1 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows attackers to execute commands by supplying shell metacharacters in archivePath or targetDir options. Attackers controlling these values passed to extract() can inject commands into unquoted shelljs exec() strings in the unzip, 7z, tar-bz2 and gz extractors, running them with Node.js process privileges.
Last activity 14 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.