CVE-2026-38993

CVSS 6.5 MEDIUMEPSS 0.8%CWE-22

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 6.5EPSS 0.8%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

29 Apr 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

Cockpit 2.13.5 and earlier is vulnerable to directory traversal via the Buckets component. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers to write files to arbitrary locations within the uploads directory or overwrite assets with malicious versions.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products

n/a · n/a

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-38993 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2463843 https://felsec.com/posts/cockpit-cms-2.13.5-multi-vulns/https://github.com/Cockpit-HQ/Cockpit/releases/tag/2.14.0 https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-38993.json