CVE-2026-12196 (GCVE-0-2026-12196)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-04 12:05 – Updated: 2026-07-06 13:57
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Title
HestiaCP Admin Takeover
Summary
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.
Severity
8.3 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
hestiacp hestiacp Affected: 0 , < 8be23943c7e3231f66d226ca931c76f93be98412 (git)
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