CVE-2026-89036

High

Description

Appwrite before 2.0.0 contains an argument injection vulnerability that allows authenticated users with functions.write or sites.write permissions to execute arbitrary commands by injecting TAB characters into the providerRootDirectory parameter used to construct GNU tar commands. The application uses escapeshellcmd instead of escapeshellarg and fails to quote the parameter, allowing TAB characters to survive sanitization and be interpreted as argument separators, enabling injection of arbitrary GNU tar arguments such as --checkpoint-action=exec to achieve remote code execution as the builds worker process user.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductAppwrite
PublishedSep 17, 2026
First seenSep 17, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-88CWE-88

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
appwrite appwritev < 2.0.02.0.0

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