CVE-2026-44604

HIGHPre-NVD 7.07.0—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 7.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-05-28. the CNA's CVSS baseline 7.0; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cna:redhat, epss, ghsa
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
7.0
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 1%CVSS: 7.0Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

A command injection vulnerability was discovered in the rpmuncompress utility of RPM. When extracting certain archive formats (ZIP, 7z, GEM) to a specified destination directory, the tool inserts the archive's top-level folder name into a shell command without properly sanitizing it. A specially crafted archive containing shell metacharacters in its folder name can execute arbitrary commands as the user running the extraction.

CVSS v3
7.0
EG Score
7.0(medium)
EPSS
42.1%
KEV
Not listed

Published

May 28, 2026

Last Modified

July 2, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Jun 12, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhat

2460967 – (CVE-2026-44604) CVE-2026-44604 rpm: Command injection in rpmuncompress doUntar() via unescaped archive top-level directory name in popen() shell command

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460967
redhat Patch Available

cve-details

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44604

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-44604(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatrpm-main-6.0.1-6.1.hum12026-06-23redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

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Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-44604?
CVE-2026-44604 is a high vulnerability published on May 28, 2026. A command injection vulnerability was discovered in the rpmuncompress utility of RPM. When extracting certain archive formats (ZIP, 7z, GEM) to a specified destination directory, the tool inserts the archive's top-level folder name into a shell command without properly sanitizing it. A specially…
When was CVE-2026-44604 disclosed?
CVE-2026-44604 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on May 28, 2026, with the most recent update on July 2, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-44604 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-44604 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 42.1% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-44604?
CVE-2026-44604 has a CVSS v4.0 base score of 7.0 (CNA self-assessment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-44604?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-44604, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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