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Command Injection

A vulnerability class where untrusted input is passed to an OS command interpreter, letting attackers execute arbitrary system commands.

Current stories

securityConfirmed5 publishers

Attackers plant web shells on Nextcloud servers through Collabora's built-in CODE app

Attackers exploited CVE-2026-110447 in Nextcloud's built-in Collabora CODE app to plant web shells, with the first logged attack on September 10. Collabora says disabling the app does not help, so administrators must update to 26.4.303 or remove it.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 24%
Operator
Operator 65%
Investor
Investor 11%

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence80
securityConfirmed4 publishers

Crafted emails give attackers shells on Zimbra servers running SNMP notifications

Microsoft says attackers are using CVE-2026-73570 to run commands on Zimbra mail servers with one crafted email and no login. Zimbra shipped the fix in 10.1.20 on July 20, 24 days before disclosure, so anyone who waited for the advisory to patch was already late.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 21%
Operator
Operator 68%
Investor
Investor 11%

Reality

Evidence80
Adoption40
Hype gap+5
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence75
buildOne report1 publisher

One COPY line runs a shell despite AWS's read-only Postgres MCP filter

AWS published CVE-2026-87911, a CVSS 9.6 command injection in its own postgres-mcp-server, where one COPY ... TO PROGRAM line runs a shell on the host. The read-only promise lives in a regex filter that lets the COPY keyword through.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives40
Confidence50
securityOne report1 publisher

CVE-2026-22755 opens 37 VIVOTEK camera models to remote command execution

CISA lists 37 VIVOTEK camera models open to CVE-2026-22755, a command injection bug that can give attackers remote command execution, potentially as root. Exploit code was public before the advisory, so the first job for owners is finding out which of their cameras are on the list.

Publishers:cisa.gov

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
securityOne report1 publisher

Parallels puts the ParaShells root fix behind an Apple silicon requirement

JFrog says a non-admin account on a Mac can reach root through Parallels Desktop's dispatcher service by planting a double quote in a folder name. The change that stops it is in version 27, and that release needs Apple silicon.

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption25
Hype gap+12
Incentives65
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

On the far side of a macOS admin prompt, a free-text DNS field ran commands as root

Sonar's developer routed a custom resolver string straight into the arguments of a privileged networksetup call. He found it himself, in a pre-version-2 pass that produced twenty-six fixes, four of which he describes.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives62
Confidence45
buildOne report1 publisher

Zimbra's SNMP notifier turns a crafted SMTP message into command execution as the zimbra user

CERT Polska says CVE-2026-73570 is already being exploited. Two of the three preconditions are configuration, not code, which makes reachability the control you can change now.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption42
Hype gap−8
Incentives30
Confidence55