CVE-2026-52891 (GCVE-0-2026-52891)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-15 21:08 – Updated: 2026-07-15 21:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Wekan: Shell Injection via Avatar Upload
Summary
Wekan is open source kanban built with Meteor. Prior to 9.07, Wekan avatar upload functionality embeds user-supplied filenames into paths later passed to child_process.exec() for MIME-type detection. Because models/avatars.js and models/fileValidation.js used a shell command with the avatar filename, shell metacharacters such as backticks and $() in the filename could execute commands on the server. This issue is fixed in version 9.07.
Severity
9.9 (Critical)
CWE
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/wekan/wekan/security/advisorie… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/wekan/wekan/commit/a4c74a5980e… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/wekan/wekan/releases/tag/v9.07 | x_refsource_MISC |
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