Cockpit CMS 2.14.0 and prior contains a command injection vulnerability in the FFmpeg integration that allows authenticated users with only the assets/upload permission to execute arbitrary commands by uploading a video file with a shell metacharacter-laden filename. The unsanitized filename is interpolated into a shell command executed via Process::fromShellCommandline() before the slugify() sanitizer runs, enabling injected shell metacharacters such as backticks, $(), and semicolons to escape the FFmpeg command context and execute as the web-server user.
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| Description | Cockpit CMS 2.14.0 and prior contains a command injection vulnerability in the FFmpeg integration that allows authenticated users with only the assets/upload permission to execute arbitrary commands by uploading a video file with a shell metacharacter-laden filename. The unsanitized filename is interpolated into a shell command executed via Process::fromShellCommandline() before the slugify() sanitizer runs, enabling injected shell metacharacters such as backticks, $(), and semicolons to escape the FFmpeg command context and execute as the web-server user. | |
| Title | Cockpit CMS 2.14.0 Authenticated Command Injection via FFmpeg Filename | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-78 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published: 2026-08-14T19:56:32.437Z
Updated: 2026-08-17T15:52:57.125Z
Reserved: 2026-08-13T15:15:35.896Z
Link: CVE-2026-73680
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-14T20:16:58.080
Modified: 2026-08-17T16:17:47.550
Link: CVE-2026-73680
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