ZoneMinder up to 1.38.2 Event Export downloadEvents Name os command injection

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A vulnerability was found in ZoneMinder up to 1.38.2. It has been classified as critical. Impacted is the function downloadEvents of the component Event Export. Performing a manipulation of the argument Name results in os command injection. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-102608. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in ZoneMinder up to 1.38.2. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function downloadEvents of the component Event Export. The manipulation of the argument Name with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

ZoneMinder is a free, open source closed-circuit television software application. Prior to 1.38.3, downloadEvents() manually wraps a monitor Name value in single quotes instead of using escapeshellarg() before placing it in shell commands when a user with monitor-create or monitor-edit permission stores a monitor Name containing shell metacharacters and a user with Events View permission exports that monitor's events. In this attack mechanism, the stored monitor Name reaches both the ffmpeg concatenation command and the tar or zip archive command and breaks out of manual quoting. Arbitrary commands execute as the web server user. This issue is fixed in version 1.38.3.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-102608 since 09/29/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.38.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Video Surveillance Software

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• ZoneMinder

Version

• 1.38.0
• 1.38.1
• 1.38.2

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/

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