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unzip-bot Allows Remote Code Execution (RCE) via archive extraction, password prompt, or video upload

Type: advisorySources: OSV

unzip-bot is a Telegram bot to extract various types of archives. Users could exploit unsanitized inputs to inject malicious commands that are executed through subprocess.Popen with shell=True. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability using a crafted archive name, password, or video name. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.3a.

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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2024-53992
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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7 Nov 2026, 02:36 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

unzip-bot Allows Remote Code Execution (RCE) via archive extraction, password prompt, or video upload

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Dec 2024, 17:03 UTC

unzip-bot is a Telegram bot to extract various types of archives. Users could exploit unsanitized inputs to inject malicious commands that are executed through subprocess.Popen with shell=True. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability using a crafted archive name, password, or video name. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.3a.

osv:CVE-2024-53992
Complete source record
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    "summary": "unzip-bot is a Telegram bot to extract various types of archives. Users could exploit unsanitized inputs to inject malicious commands that are executed through subprocess.Popen with shell=True. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability using a crafted archive name, password, or video name. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.3a.",
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