{"id":"CVE-2026-12116","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-12116","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:19:46.648Z","title":"A vulnerability in the Xerte Online Tools allows for RCE through the antivirus binary path in the tools server settings, which can be changed to a PHP interpreter, allowing an attacker to upload PHP data that will then be executed.","description":"A vulnerability in the Xerte Online Tools allows for RCE through the antivirus binary path in the tools server settings, which can be changed to a PHP interpreter, allowing an attacker to upload PHP data that will then be executed.","published":"2026-07-09T14:16:26.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-25T17:10:00.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"cret@cert.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00702,"percentile":0.52989,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.70%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/commit/8ef20628f80bd88bd1fe3e5844a9116a910086b7","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/issues/1543","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://www.xerte.org.uk/index.php/en/news/blog/80-news/364-xerte-3-14-and-3-15-important-security-update","source":"cret@cert.org"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12116","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}