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CVE-2026-40029

parseusbs < 1.9 Command Injection via Crafted LNK Filename PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 examiner's machine during USB artifact parsing.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
khyrenz / parseusbsaffected 0 before 1.9.0; unaffected 1.9.0; unaffected 99f05996494e7e41ea0c7e13145ba20eb793e46b

CWE

CWE-78

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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