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🛡️ CVE-2026-66486

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-116 NVD
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Description

GNU cpio is vulnerable to improper encoding or escaping of output in its archive member listing functionality. When listing archive members via cpio -it, member names are printed directly to output without quoting or escaping. An attacker can craft a cpio archive containing member names with embedded newline characters or ANSI escape sequences, causing forged listing entries or terminal control sequence injection when the listing is displayed.

This issue has been fixed in commit 2ff9600c9ef32e88759843cdbde74c8db5ae9b30

Weakness class

CVE-2026-66486 is classified as CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. Output is emitted without encoding it for the context it lands in, so data is interpreted as markup or code.

Affected software

CVE-2026-66486 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 10 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

cert.pl
git.savannah.gnu.org

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Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output) in other software:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-116
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown

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