CVE-2026-105841 PUBLISHED

lrzsz before 0.13.0 OS Command Injection via lrz Pipe Mode

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 05.10.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

lrzsz before 0.13.0 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in the lrz receive utility's pipe mode that allows remote senders to execute commands by supplying crafted filenames. When lrz runs under a suffixed name such as lrztar, procheader() in src/lrz.c passes the unescaped ZMODEM/YMODEM filename to popen(), so shell metacharacters execute as the receiving user.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.7

Product Status

Vendor Uwe Ohse
Product lrzsz
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.13.0 (excl.)

Credits

  • Tristan Madani finder

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') CWE