CVE-2026-38993
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
Description
Cockpit is vulnerable to directory traversal
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | cockpit-hq/cockpit | <2.14.0 | 2.14.0 |
| COMPOSER | cockpit-hq/cockpit | < 2.14.0 | 2.14.0 |
References
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p46p-7pmj-m34f
- https://felsec.com/posts/cockpit-cms-2.13.5-multi-vulns/
- https://github.com/Cockpit-HQ/Cockpit/releases/tag/2.14.0
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-38993
- https://felsec.com/posts/cockpit-cms-2.13.5-multi-vulns
- https://github.com/Cockpit-HQ/Cockpit
CWEs
CWE-22
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.