CVE-2026-86177
Pterodactyl Panel before 1.14.1 Privilege Escalation via Schedule Tasks
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.7 High
- Published
- Sep 5, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 24, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 5, 2026
Description
Pterodactyl Panel before 1.14.1 fails to validate action-specific permissions in scheduled task creation, allowing subusers with only schedule.update permission to execute arbitrary console commands. Attackers can create and immediately trigger scheduled tasks that run game-server console commands, control server power state, or create backups without proper authorization checks.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 8.7 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | VulnCheck |
| 3.1 | 8.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | VulnCheck |
Weaknesses
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
panelpterodactyl |
|
References
- Patch Commitpatch
- Researcher Advisorythird-party-advisoryexploit
- StoreTaskRequest permission and rulestechnical-description
- RunTaskJob action dispatchtechnical-description
- Pterodactyl Panel v1.14.1 Release Notesrelease-notes
- https://github.com/pterodactyl/panelproduct
- VulnCheck Advisory: Pterodactyl Panel before 1.14.1 Privilege Escalation via Schedule Tasksthird-party-advisory
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