MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-95521 (CVSS 7.8)
NVD · officialPublished Sep 24, 2026Risk 23/100
A command injection flaw was found in rpm. Installing or rebuilding a source RPM whose source or spec file basenames contain a %() macro construct causes rpm to execute an attacker-controlled shell command via popen() while relocating the source file list. This allows arbitrary command execution as the invoking (typically non-root) user, simply by installing, rebuilding, or otherwise processing an untrusted .src.rpm.
Technical details
CVSS
7.8
AV:LocalAC:LowPR:NoneUI:RequiredC:HighI:HighA:High
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