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High · 8.4 CVE-2026-80427 EUVD-2026-66601

bestzip before 2.2.6 and 3.0.x before 3.0.2 Argument Injection via Missing Option Delimiter

Published Aug 26, 2026 · Updated Aug 29, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

bestzip builds the argument list for the system zip utility without separating options from operands. The destination archive path and the caller-supplied source paths are passed to the child process with no -- delimiter between them, so any source entry beginning with a hyphen is interpreted by zip as an option rather than a file name. zip accepts -T to test the finished archive and -TT to name the command used to perform that test, so a source list containing those two entries and a command string causes zip to run that command through a shell once the archive has been written. An application that passes a file name or path it received from an untrusted source into the bestzip API therefore executes a command of the supplier's choosing. Versions 2.2.6 and 3.0.2 add the delimiter.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nfriedly bestzip < 2.2.6, 3.0.0 – < 3.0.2 2.2.6

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