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Public proof of concept

CVE-2026-26833

A public proof of concept exists; no exploitation attested.

  • Published2026-03-25
  • WeaknessCWE-78 · CWE-94

Am I affected?

With a domain, we read the version its public headers and pages expose. A distribution build can carry the fix under an older number.

Description

thumbler through 1.1.2 allows OS command injection via the input, output, time, or size parameter in the thumbnail() function because user input is concatenated into a shell command string passed to child_process.exec() without proper sanitization or escaping.

Timeline

dates in UTC
  1. 2026-03-2516:16CVE publishedNVD
  2. 2026-10-2319:23First public proof of conceptPoC-in-GitHub

Observed activity

isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 21:37 UTC
Indicators tagged with this CVE, per day0 indicators over 7 days
Block these indicators
  • Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2026-26833?format=txt
  • CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2026-26833?format=csv
  • TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
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Versions per branch

NVD · OSV
Mmahrous thumbler
BranchAffectedFixed in
1.1≤ 1.1.2no fix published
thumbler
BranchAffectedFixed in
1.1≤ 1.1.2no fix published

as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.

Fix

Advisories and patches

Detection

read 2026-10-23 19:25 UTC
Nuclei template
none so far
ProjectDiscovery
Exploit-DB
no entry
Exploit-DB
Proof-of-concept repositories
1 repository, unverifiedzebbernCVE/CVE-2026-26833
PoC-in-GitHub

Sources

Technical details

CVSS v3 Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2026-03-25
Last Modified
2026-06-17
NVD status
Analyzed

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-26833?

thumbler through 1.1.2 allows OS command injection via the input, output, time, or size parameter in the thumbnail() function because user input is concatenated into a shell command string passed to child_process.exec() without proper sanitization or escaping.

Is CVE-2026-26833 actively exploited?

A proof-of-concept exploit exists for CVE-2026-26833, but active exploitation has not been confirmed at this time.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2026-26833?

CVE-2026-26833 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL severity), with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

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