CVE-2026-12196: HestiaCP Admin Takeover

Severity: high (CVSS 8.3 v4.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-07-04 · updated 2026-07-06
Weakness: CWE-287

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.

References

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

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