CVE-2026-12196

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 v4.0

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/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

EPSS

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 33th percentile

Published

2026-07-04

Updated

2026-07-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://projectblack.io/blog/hestiacp-admin-takeover-rce/

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2026-12195
• CVE-2026-12197
• CVE-2026-12194
• CVE-2026-12198
• CVE-2026-12193
• CVE-2026-12200