CVE-2026-44604: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
• Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images: before 6.0.1-6.1.hum1 (fixed in 6.0.1-6.1.hum1)

Published 2026-05-28. Last modified 2026-09-01.