TI-2026-20078 Aliases CVE-2026-24893

openITCOCKPIT has Authenticated Command Injection Leading to Remote Code Execution via Host Address Macro Expansion

MEDIUM 43CWE-20Published 2026-04-14 · Updated 2026-04-15

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-78.

Summary

openITCOCKPIT is an open source monitoring tool built for different monitoring engines. openITCOCKPIT Community Edition prior to version 5.5.2 contains a command injection vulnerability that allows an authenticated user with permission to add or modify hosts to execute arbitrary OS commands on the monitoring backend. The vulnerability arises because user-controlled host attributes (specifically the host address) are expanded into monitoring command templates without validation, escaping, or quoting. These templates are later executed by the monitoring engine (Nagios/Icinga) via a shell, resulting in remote code execution. Version 5.5.2 patches the issue.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.01398 72nd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed openITCOCKPIT (openITCOCKPIT): 5.5.2

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
openITCOCKPIT	openITCOCKPIT	before 5.5.2	5.5.2	Patch available	CNA

openITCOCKPIT VendoropenITCOCKPIT Affected before 5.5.2 Fixed in 5.5.2 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:it-novum:openitcockpit::::::::	before 5.5.2	Vulnerable	openITCOCKPIT

cpe:2.3:a:it-novum:openitcockpit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 5.5.2 Vulnerable ·openITCOCKPIT

Remediation

Fix · CNA openITCOCKPIT (openITCOCKPIT) Fixed in 5.5.2

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-24893

References

Advisory 1

https://github.com/openITCOCKPIT/openITCOCKPIT/security/advisories/GHSA-789q-pw85-j2q2

Other 2

TI-2026-20077 openITCOCKPIT has Unsafe Deserialization in openITCOCKPIT Changelog Handling CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2026-20076 openITCOCKPIT has Unsafe PHP Deserialization in Gearman Worker Allowing Conditional Object Injection CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2023-03285 Sensitive Cookie in HTTPS Session Without 'Secure' Attribute in it-novum/openitcockpit CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.6
TI-2023-03014 Race Condition within a Thread in it-novum/openitcockpit CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.4
TI-2020-08682 openITCOCKPIT before 3.7.3 has a web-based terminal that allows attackers to execute… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2019-11598 openITCOCKPIT before 3.7.1 allows SSRF, aka RVID 5-445b21. CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8

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Sources

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