CVE-2026-87794: nfriedly bestzip

bestzip 2.2.6 and 3.0.2 Argument Injection via the Native Zip Destination

CVSS 8.6 HighEPSS 0.0028 · 20th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulnCheck) at 9 Sept 2026, 10:07 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
nfriedly	bestzip https://www.npmjs.com/package/bestzip pkg:npm/bestzip	affected 2.2.6 to before 2.2.7 semver affected 3.0.2 to before 3.0.3 semver Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2026-87794

CNA

VulnCheck

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-88

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.6	High	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)Used for this record
8.4	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0028, the 20th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 9 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/nfriedly/node-bestzip/security/advisories/GHSA-xhwx-rch4-ph2v vendor-advisory
github.com/nfriedly/node-bestzip/commit/2adb637b0acb05b8475de7db5af4b86ffcf40aaf patch
github.com/nfriedly/node-bestzip/blob/v3.0.2/lib/bestzip.js technical-description
github.com/nfriedly/node-bestzip/security/advisories/GHSA-p87m-9567-rgcc relatedvendor-advisory
www.npmjs.com/package/bestzip product
github.com/nfriedly/node-bestzip product
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/bestzip-2.2.6-and-3.0.2-argument-injection-via-the-native-zip-destination third-party-advisory

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.