{"id":"CVE-2026-24893","aliases":["EUVD-2026-22703","GHSA-789q-pw85-j2q2"],"status":"published","title":"openITCOCKPIT has Authenticated Command Injection Leading to Remote Code Execution via Host Address Macro Expansion","description":"openITCOCKPIT is an open source monitoring tool built for different monitoring engines. openITCOCKPIT Community Edition prior to version 5.5.2 contains a command injection vulnerability that allows an authenticated user with permission to add or modify hosts to execute arbitrary OS commands on the monitoring backend. The vulnerability arises because user-controlled host attributes (specifically the host address) are expanded into monitoring command templates without validation, escaping, or quoting. These templates are later executed by the monitoring engine (Nagios/Icinga) via a shell, resulting in remote code execution. Version 5.5.2 patches the issue.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.01398,"percentile":0.72642,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-20","CWE-78"],"published":"2026-04-14T20:37:00Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:01Z","products":[{"vendor":"it-novum","product":"openitcockpit"},{"vendor":"openitcockpit","product":"openitcockpit"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/openITCOCKPIT/openITCOCKPIT/security/advisories/GHSA-789q-pw85-j2q2","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","Mitigation","Vendor Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/openITCOCKPIT/openITCOCKPIT/releases/tag/openITCOCKPIT-5.5.2","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Product","Release Notes","web"]},{"url":"https://openitcockpit.io/blog/posts/2026/2026-04-14-openitcockpit-agent-3.6.0-and-5.5.2","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Press/Media Coverage","Release Notes","article"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/24xxx/CVE-2026-24893.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24893","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-24893","title":"openITCOCKPIT has Authenticated Command Injection Leading to Remote Code Execution via Host Address Macro Expansion","description":"openITCOCKPIT is an open source monitoring tool built for different monitoring engines. openITCOCKPIT Community Edition prior to version 5.5.2 contains a command injection vulnerability that allows an authenticated user with permission to add or modify hosts to execute arbitrary OS commands on the monitoring backend. The vulnerability arises because user-controlled host attributes (specifically the host address) are expanded into monitoring command templates without validation, escaping, or quoting. These templates are later executed by the monitoring engine (Nagios/Icinga) via a shell, resulting in remote code execution. 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These templates are later executed by the monitoring engine (Nagios/Icinga) via a shell, resulting in remote code execution. Version 5.5.2 patches the issue.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-14T20:37:00Z","modified":"2026-04-15T13:40:30Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T19:24:25.212217Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-24893","description":"openITCOCKPIT is an open source monitoring tool built for different monitoring engines. openITCOCKPIT Community Edition prior to version 5.5.2 contains a command injection vulnerability that allows an authenticated user with permission to add or modify hosts to execute arbitrary OS commands on the monitoring backend. The vulnerability arises because user-controlled host attributes (specifically the host address) are expanded into monitoring command templates without validation, escaping, or quoting. These templates are later executed by the monitoring engine (Nagios/Icinga) via a shell, resulting in remote code execution. Version 5.5.2 patches the issue.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-14T21:16:24.987Z","modified":"2026-07-25T11:10:00.1Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-20","CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:14.748836Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-24893","title":"openITCOCKPIT has Authenticated Command Injection Leading to Remote Code Execution via Host Address Macro Expansion","description":"openITCOCKPIT is an open source monitoring tool built for different monitoring engines. openITCOCKPIT Community Edition prior to version 5.5.2 contains a command injection vulnerability that allows an authenticated user with permission to add or modify hosts to execute arbitrary OS commands on the monitoring backend. 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