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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-73680 EUVD-2026-58799GHSA-4x4q-mx3g-g3m2

Cockpit CMS 2.14.0 Authenticated Command Injection via FFmpeg Filename

Published Aug 14, 2026 · Updated Oct 1, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Cockpit HQ Cockpit CMS ≤ 2.14.0 —

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