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CVE-2026-40032 (GCVE-0-2026-40032)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-08 21:35 – Updated: 2026-06-23 16:16 X_Open Source
VLAI
Title
UAC < 3.3.0-rc1 Command Injection via Placeholder Substitution
Summary
UAC (Unix-like Artifacts Collector) before 3.3.0-rc1 contains a command injection vulnerability in the placeholder substitution and command execution pipeline where the _run_command() function passes constructed command strings directly to eval without proper sanitization. Attackers can inject shell metacharacters or command substitutions through attacker-controlled inputs including %line% values from foreach iterators and %user% / %user_home% values derived from system files to achieve arbitrary command execution with the privileges of the UAC process.
Severity
8.5 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-09 19:32 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE-78)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
tclahr UAC Affected: 0 , < 3.3.0-rc1 (semver)
Unaffected: 3.3.0-rc1 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-03-28 00:00
Credits
Mobasi Security Team
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