CVE-2026-50558
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.02
BB Relevance:
52/100
Published: 2026-07-29
Modified: 2026-10-23
First seen: 2026-10-29
Status: active
Attack Surface
Network
No Auth
Integ. Impact
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Network
AC:
High
PR:
None
UI:
Required
S:
Unchanged
C:
None
I:
High
A:
Low
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.