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.

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…

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.000 (6.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vdb-entry)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking)

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.