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CVE-2026-12196

HestiaCP Admin Takeover

HIGH
8.3
CVSS Score
Published: July 4, 2026 at 12:05 PM UTC
Updated: July 6, 2026 at 08:03 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorHestiacp

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Severity
HIGH8.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
PoC

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Hestiacp· Hestiacp
60%
v < 8be23943c7e3231f66d226ca931c76f93be98412

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (2)

Patch
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/pull/5440
Exploit
Source: cverecord
https://projectblack.io/blog/hestiacp-admin-takeover-rce/

SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

8.3HIGHPRJBLK
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-287

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