CVE-2026-5208

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') in coolercontrold

State: Published
Severity: 8.2 High
Published: Apr 8, 2026
Updated: Apr 8, 2026
Reserved: Mar 31, 2026

Description

Command injection in alerts in CoolerControl/coolercontrold <4.0.0 allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code as root via injected bash commands in alert names

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitLab

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
coolercontroldCoolerControl	3.1.0 to before 4.0.0Affected

References

https://gitlab.com/coolercontrol/coolercontrol/-/blob/3.1.0/coolercontrold/src/alerts.rs?ref_type=tags#L576
https://gitlab.com/coolercontrol/coolercontrol/-/releases/4.0.0

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