CVE-2026-38993

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.8%

Medium (6.5). EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 57% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2026-04-29
Modified: 2026-07-15
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://felsec.com/posts/cockpit-cms-2.13.5-multi-vulns/
https://github.com/Cockpit-HQ/Cockpit/releases/tag/2.14.0
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-38993
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2463843
https://felsec.com/posts/cockpit-cms-2.13.5-multi-vulns/

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