🛡️ CVE-2026-53932 — laravel-backup-restore

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-77 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

laravel-backup-restore has an OS Command Injection during database restore

Summary

A crafted backup archive can trigger OS command injection during database restore. The restore workflow extracts a ZIP archive, enumerates files under db-dumps, converts the dump path to an absolute path, and passes that path into database import commands that are built as shell command strings.

The dump filename is not shell-escaped before it is interpolated into commands such as:

  • mysql ... < {dumpFile}
  • gunzip -c {dumpFile} / gunzip < {dumpFile}
  • psql ... < {dumpFile}
  • sqlite3 ... < {dumpFile}

Because Illuminate\Support\Facades\Process::run(string) uses Symfony Process::fromShellCommandline(), shell metacharacters in the dump filename are interpreted by /bin/sh on Unix-like systems or by the platform shell on Windows.

Impact

If an attacker can cause an operator or automation to restore a malicious backup archive, the attacker can execute arbitrary shell commands as the PHP/Laravel application user on the system performing the restore. This can lead to application compromise, database credential disclosure, tampering with restored data, and further lateral movement depending on deployment permissions.

This is not about malicious SQL inside the dump. The command injection is carried in the ZIP entry filename under db-dumps, before the dump content is imported.

Patches

The vulnerability has been fixed in v1.9.4 of the package.

Workarounds

There is no configuration option that disables the vulnerable code path. Upgrading to the patched release is the only complete fix.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-53932 is classified as CWE-77: Command Injection. User input is placed into a command that the system interprets, allowing extra commands to be appended to the intended one.

Affected software

CVE-2026-53932 is recorded against 1 package.

  • wnx/laravel-backup-restore (fixed in 1.9.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 9 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-77
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-09
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-09
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wnx/laravel-backup-restore — 1.9.4

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