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Medium · 5.1 CVE-2026-65612 EUVD-2026-62401GHSA-mxcx-xvcg-f843

Shell Command Injection in nnn

Published Aug 19, 2026 · Updated Aug 20, 2026 · Assigned by CERT-PL

Description

nnn does not sanitize the filename variable. An attacker can place a file with a crafted name on a shared filesystem, removable media, or inside an extracted archive whose name contains a single quote followed by shell syntax. If the victim navigates
to that file and opens it with preview-tabbed, the filename is embedded into the generated shell command and the injected payload executes with the privileges of the nnn process.

Maintainer of this project was notified about this vulnerability. It might has been addressed, but the maintainer did not provide a vulnerable version range. Only version 5.2 was tested and confirmed as vulnerable.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nnn nnn — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 nnn No fix yet —
Debian 13 nnn No fix yet —
Debian 12 nnn No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 nnn No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS nnn No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS nnn No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS nnn No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS nnn No fix yet —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS nnn No fix yet —

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