CVE-2026-54090
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Summary
When a shell interpreter is configured (e.g. /bin/sh -c), the command allowlist can be bypassed through shell metacharacters. The allowlist validates only the first token of user input, but the entire raw string is handed to the shell — semicolons, pipes, backticks, and $() all work to chain arbitrary commands after a permitted one.
This is a distinct issue from CVE-2025-52995 (regex partial matching, fixed in 2.33.10) and CVE-2025-52903 (GTFOBins-style subcommands). The slices.Contains fix does not prevent this bypass.
Affected Location
- runner/parser.go, function ParseCommand (lines 10-25)
- http/commands.go, function commandsHandler (lines 72-86)
Root Cause
ParseCommand extracts the first token via SplitCommandAndArgs for the allowlist check, then passes the entire raw input to the shell:
func ParseCommand(s *settings.Settings, raw string) (command []string, name string, err error) {
name, args, err := SplitCommandAndArgs(raw)
if len(s.Shell) == 0 || s.Shell[0] == "" {
command = append(command, name)
command = append(command, args...)
} else {
command = append(command, s.Shell...)
command = append(command, raw) // full user input, metacharacters included
}
return command, name, nil
}
In commandsHandler:
if !slices.Contains(d.user.Commands, name) { // name = "ls", passes
// reject
}
cmd := exec.Command(command[0], command[1:]...)
// actually executes: /bin/sh -c "ls; id; cat /etc/shadow"
name is ls — allow
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.32% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 25% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (1)
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