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CVE-2009-2261

68
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2261 describes a critical command injection vulnerability affecting PeaZIP versions 2.6.1, 2.5.1, and earlier on Windows. This flaw allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by crafting a malicious .zip archive containing a .txt file with pipe characters and a command in its filename. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring medium attack complexity but leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV entry), public exploit modules exist, including a Metasploit module, indicating readily available tools for exploitation. Community discussion and media coverage are minimal, which is typical for many older CVEs.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:giorgio_tani:peazip:*:-:windows:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:giorgio_tani:peazip:1.0:-:windows:*:*:*:*:*
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:giorgio_tani:peazip:1.1:-:windows:*:*:*:*:*
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:giorgio_tani:peazip:1.2:-:windows:*:*:*:*:*
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:giorgio_tani:peazip:1.3:-:windows:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
41.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: PeaZip Zip Processing Command Injection · Jun 5, 2009
ExploitDB: EDB-16307 · Sep 20, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4142 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exploit-db.com / exploits/8881