CVE-2006-6979: Amarok

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ruby handlers in the Magnatune component in Amarok do not properly quote text in certain contexts, probably including construction of an unzip command line, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.

Affected products

• Amarok Amarok: any version

Published 2007-02-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.