High severity · published Aug 14, 2026
CVE-2026-73680
Cockpit CMS 2.14.0 Authenticated Command Injection via FFmpeg Filename
8.8
CVSS
2.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.8% · higher than 86% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CC
Cockpit CMS · Cockpit HQ
through 2.14.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73680
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73680
product
https://github.com/Cockpit-HQ/Cockpit
technical-description
https://link.mateocallec.com/MFC-2026-002
patch
https://github.com/Cockpit-HQ/Cockpit/commit/28813596f57685f63d3a48f655e8e9bd2b535cab
third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cockpit-cms-authenticated-command-injection-via-ffmpeg-filename
More from Cockpit CMS
8.8
CVE-2026-57856
Cockpit CMS Path Traversal via Bucket Name in Bucket File Storage API
8.8
CVE-2026-57855
Cockpit CMS Missing Authorization in Bucket File Storage API
