Security Advisory

CVE-2026-40029

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-04-08 21:35:24

Last updated 2026-05-08 14:07:46

Assigner VulnCheck

State PUBLISHED

Description

parseusbs before 1.9 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in parseUSBs.py where LNK file paths are passed unsanitized into an os.popen() shell command, allowing arbitrary command execution via crafted .lnk filenames containing shell metacharacters. An attacker can craft a .lnk filename with embedded shell metacharacters that execute arbitrary commands on the forensic examiners machine during USB artifact parsing.

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