CVE-2026-52891
criticalpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.008 · 56 %ileEUEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
Wekan is open source kanban built with Meteor. Prior to 9.07, Wekan avatar upload functionality embeds user-supplied filenames into paths later passed to child_process.exec() for MIME-type detection. Because models/avatars.js and models/fileValidation.js used a shell command with the avatar filename, shell metacharacters such as backticks and $() in the filename could execute commands on the server. This issue is fixed in version 9.07.
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affected products (1)
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references (9)
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- https://github.com/wekan/wekan/commit/a4c74a5980e9f778eb444fd346f32aa3d16786a9cnnvd
- https://github.com/wekan/wekan/releases/tag/v9.07cnnvd
- https://github.com/wekan/wekan/security/advisories/GHSA-35j7-h385-2q9gcnnvd
- https://github.com/wekan/wekan/commit/a4c74a5980e9f778eb444fd346f32aa3d16786a9enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/wekan/wekan/releases/tag/v9.07enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/wekan/wekan/security/advisories/GHSA-35j7-h385-2q9genisa_euvd
- https://github.com/wekan/wekan/commit/a4c74a5980e9f778eb444fd346f32aa3d16786a9nvd
- https://github.com/wekan/wekan/releases/tag/v9.07nvd
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