CVE-2026-85672

CVSS 9.8 (critical) · published 2026-09-04

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.

Weakness: CWE-78

Source: NVD CVE-2026-85672

References

• https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox
• https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox/blob/main/node-zerox/src/utils/file.ts
• https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox/issues/206
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/zerox-1.1.20-os-command-injection-via-document-url-file-extension
• https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox/issues/206

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