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CVE-2024-36053

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

In the mintupload package through 4.2.0 for Linux Mint, service-name mishandling leads to command injection via shell metacharacters in check_connection, drop_data_received_cb, and Service.remove. A user can modify a service name in a ~/.linuxmint/mintUpload/services/service file.

Affected products

• LinuxMint Mintupload: through 4.2.0

References

• http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/m/mintupload/
• https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupload/issues/42
• https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupload/issues/43
• http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/m/mintupload/
• https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupload/issues/42
• https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupload/issues/43

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