CVE-2026-38993

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Apr 29, 2026
Updated: Jul 15, 2026
Reserved: Apr 6, 2026

Description

Cockpit 2.13.5 and earlier is vulnerable to directory traversal via the Buckets component. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers to write files to arbitrary locations within the uploads directory or overwrite assets with malicious versions.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP
3.1	8.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H	redhat-SADP

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/Cockpit-HQ/Cockpit/releases/tag/2.14.0
https://felsec.com/posts/cockpit-cms-2.13.5-multi-vulns/
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-38993vdb-entry
RHBZ#2463843issue-tracking
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-38993.json

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