CVE-2026-12196
HestiaCP Admin Takeover
Vexday Risk Score
38Attention
SSVC decision (CISA)
Attend
PoC available → attend closely
CVSS 8.3EPSS —KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit —Patch referenciado
Lifecycle
04 Jul 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.
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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