TuxGuitar: Arbitrary Code Execution via maliciously crafted `.tg` file
Exact source revision recorded 28 Oct 2026 19:46:48 UTC. It does not establish the source's current position. Latest evidence.
cve-program · CVE-2026-55543
PublishedTuxGuitar is an open-source guitar tablature editor. Prior to 2.1.0, an untrusted .tg file can set gervil.soundbank.path to reference an on-disk archive, including the .tg file itself, whose META-INF/services/javax.sound.midi.Soundbank entry names an attacker-supplied class stored in that archive. When a user opens the file, JARSoundbankReader uses an unverified class loader to load and instantiate that class, executing its constructor with the privileges of the TuxGuitar process. This issue is fixed in version 2.1.0.
- Source published
- 16 Oct 2026 15:28:14 UTC
- Source modified
- 28 Oct 2026 18:26:15 UTC
- Observed here
- 28 Oct 2026 19:46:48 UTC
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CVSS 4.0 · 8.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N