CVE-2026-85672

critical

zerox 1.1.20 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in the file download mechanism where the temporary file extension derived from document URLs is int…

zerox 1.1.20 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in the file download mechanism where the temporary file extension derived from document URLs is interpolated unsanitized into shell commands executed by poppler utilities. Attackers can craft document URLs with malicious file extensions containing command substitution syntax to execute arbitrary OS commands before document processing occurs.

CVSS

9.8

9.8 (CVSS v3.1)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (disclosure@vulncheck.com)

Timeline (UTC)

Published: 2026-09-04 15:17

Modified: 2026-09-23 17:17

NVD status: Deferred

Last synced 1 day ago

Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:50 UTC

Exploitation

Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)

Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.

References

https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox disclosure@vulncheck.com
https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox/blob/main/node-zerox/src/utils/file.ts disclosure@vulncheck.com
https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox/issues/206 disclosure@vulncheck.com
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/zerox-1.1.20-os-command-injection-via-document-url-fi... disclosure@vulncheck.com
https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox/issues/206 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:50 UTC · record ↗

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