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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-40030 EUVD-2026-20771

parseusbs < 1.9 Command Injection via Volume Path Argument

Published Apr 8, 2026 · Updated Nov 8, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

parseusbs before 1.9 contains an OS command injection vulnerability where the volume listing path argument (-v flag) is passed unsanitized into an os.popen() shell command with ls, allowing arbitrary command injection via crafted volume path arguments containing shell metacharacters. An attacker can provide a crafted volume path via the -v flag that injects arbitrary commands during volume content enumeration.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
khyrenz parseusbs < 1.9.0 1.9.0

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