CVE-2015-4035: Tukaani Xz

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

scripts/xzgrep.in in xzgrep 5.2.x before 5.2.0, before 5.0.0 does not properly process file names containing semicolons, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by having a user run xzgrep on a crafted file name.

Affected products

• Tukaani Xz: up to and including 4.999.9

Published 2017-07-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.