CVE-2026-68766: Hashcat

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

hashcat fails to restrict command-line options when parsing restore files, allowing attackers to inject output-redirecting options like --outfile and --potfile-path. Attackers can craft restore files with malicious options to append attacker-controlled content to arbitrary files, enabling code execution when targeting shell startup files.

Affected products

• Hashcat Hashcat: up to and including 7.1.2

Published 2026-08-22. Last modified 2026-09-24.