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CVE-2026-12196

HestiaCP panel cronjob feature is affected by a broken access control vulnerability.

HIGH 8.3EPSS 0.40%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.40%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

HestiaCP panel cronjob feature is affected by a broken access control vulnerability. Low privilege users can modify the panel cronjob to execute scripts HestiaCP management scripts with passwordless sudo. This could result in the takeover of administrator users in the application and the underlying webserver.

CVSS 4.0: 8.3 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS: 0.40% probability · 33th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-287
Source: ab69c47f-b95e-4bf2-b2d9-4b1fd1b24b4a

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.