CVE-2009-2261: Giorgio Tani Peazip

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 41.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PeaZIP 2.6.1, 2.5.1, and earlier on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a .zip archive with a .txt file whose name contains | (pipe) characters and a command.

Affected products

• Giorgio Tani Peazip: up to and including 2.5.1; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.4 only; …

Published 2009-06-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.