RCE in Cockpit Hq Cms
CVE-2026-73680
Cockpit CMS 2.14.0 and prior contains a command injection vulnerability in the FFmpeg integration that allows authenticated users with only the assets/upload permission to execute arbitrary commands by uploading a video file with a shell metacharacter-laden filename. The unsanitized filename is interpolated into a shell command executed via Process::fromShellCommandline() before the slugify() sanitizer runs, enabling injected shell metacharacters such as backticks, $(), and semicolons to escape the FFmpeg command context and execute as the web-server user.
Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.028 (85.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 85.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.028 · change: +0.013
Affected products
- Cockpit Hq Cms — versions 0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- Product Repository (product)
- Patch Commit (patch)
- Public Reference (technical-description)
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cockpit-cms-authenticated-command-injection-via-ff… (third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-73680?
- CVE-2026-73680 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cockpit Hq Cms, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2026-08-14.
- How severe is CVE-2026-73680?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.