Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-102608 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-102608 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-102608?
- Critical severity, with a CVSS score of 9, published 16 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Zoneminder prior to 1.38.3.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-102608?
- Yes: fixed in 1.38.3. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-102608 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-102608?
- Check whether you run Zoneminder at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
How to fix
- Fixed in: 1.38.3
Technical details
The downloadEvents() function in ZoneMinder prior to 1.38.3 manually wraps monitor names in single quotes rather than using escapeshellarg() before passing them to shell commands (ffmpeg, tar, zip). A user with monitor-create or monitor-edit permission can store a monitor name containing shell metacharacters (including single quotes) that breaks out of the manual quoting. When a user with Events View permission exports that monitor's events, the injected commands execute as the web server user.
Affected products
- ZoneMinder ZoneMinder prior to 1.38.3
Timeline
- 2026-10-16: disclosed
- 2026-05-23: patched