CVE-2026-12196: high-severity vulnerability in hestiacp
HestiaCP Admin Takeover
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41Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 8.3epss 0.4%
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/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
hestiacp · hestiacppublic PoCs found — 1
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