CVE-2026-73680

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Cockpit HQCockpit CMS0 <= 2.14.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

References