Description
Penelope Shell Handler is a post-exploitation shell handler for authorized security testing. Prior to 0.20.0, the Unix download() implementation in penelope.py used tar.extractall(local_download_folder) on tar archives returned by remote sessions without validating member paths, allowing a malicious or compromised session to write files outside the intended download directory and potentially overwrite ~/.penelope/peneloperc. This issue is fixed in version 0.20.0.
CVSS 5.9EPSS 0.25%Risk 0.6
View source- Published
- 2026-07-29 16:17:52
- Affected versions
- <0.20.0
- Type
- Critical software
- Last modified
- 2026-07-29 18:16:53
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L