High
Security advisory
A vulnerability in Imperative framework which allows already-privileged local actors to execute arbitrary shell commands via plugin install/update commands, or maliciously formed environment variables. Impacts Zowe CLI.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-4326
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:56 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A vulnerability in Imperative framework which allows already-privileged local actors to execute arbitrary shell commands via plugin install/update commands, or maliciously formed environment variables. Impacts Zowe CLI.
osv:CVE-2021-4326
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:50:43.961480306Z",
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