Description
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.
Published: 2026-08-14
Score: 8.7 High
EPSS: 1.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Cockpit-hq
Cockpit-hq cockpit
Vendors & Products Cockpit-hq
Cockpit-hq cockpit

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:15:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Cockpit CMS 2.14.0 Authenticated Command Injection via FFmpeg Filename
Weaknesses CWE-78
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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Cockpit-hq Cockpit
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-17T15:52:57.125Z

Reserved: 2026-08-13T15:15:35.896Z

Link: CVE-2026-73680

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-14T20:16:58.080

Modified: 2026-08-17T16:17:47.550

Link: CVE-2026-73680

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Updated: 2026-08-17T11:00:07Z

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