RCE in Red Hat Pen Drive Powered By Lightspeed
CVE-2026-44604
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.
Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.0 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.006 (47.0th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 47th percentile — 47.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.006 · change: -0.004
Affected products
- Red Hat Pen Drive Powered By Lightspeed
- Red Hat Build Of Quarkus Native Builder
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Hardened Images — versions 6.0.1-6.1.hum1
- Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat Satellite 6
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44604 (vdb-entry)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (issue-tracking)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28491 (vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-44604?
- CVE-2026-44604 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Pen Drive Powered By Lightspeed, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.0/10. Published 2026-05-28.
- How severe is CVE-2026-44604?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.0 out of 10.