CVE-2026-89036 PUBLISHED

Appwrite < 2.0.0 Argument Injection via providerRootDirectory Parameter

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 10.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

Appwrite before 2.0.0 contains an argument injection vulnerability that allows authenticated users with functions.write or sites.write permissions to execute arbitrary commands by injecting TAB characters into the providerRootDirectory parameter used to construct GNU tar commands. The application uses escapeshellcmd instead of escapeshellarg and fails to quote the parameter, allowing TAB characters to survive sanitization and be interpreted as argument separators, enabling injection of arbitrary GNU tar arguments such as --checkpoint-action=exec to achieve remote code execution as the builds worker process user.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor appwrite
Product appwrite
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 2.0.0 (excl.)

Credits

  • Alpesh Bhagwatkar finder

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection') CWE