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.
{
"cna_assigner": "VulnCheck",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-78"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/106xxx/CVE-2026-106057.json"
}