CVE-2026-4802

HIGHPre-NVD 8.08.0
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 8.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-05-11. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.0; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated
8.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1.2%CVSS: 8.0Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in Cockpit. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to achieve arbitrary command execution on the host by exploiting unsanitized user-controlled parameters within crafted links in the system logs user interface (UI). An attacker can inject shell metacharacters and command substitutions into these parameters, leading to the execution of arbitrary shell commands on the affected system. This could result in a complete system compromise.

CVSS v3
8.0
EG Score
8.0HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
52
EG Risk 52/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity80% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
1.2%
EPSS %ILE
67th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (8.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.0 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
1.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-17). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

May 11, 2026

Last Modified

July 15, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated May 11, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Web page

cockpit/pkg/systemd/logsJournal.jsx at e204cd130cba38db9be959c7f251472e68db3a0a · cockpit-project/cockpit · GitHub

https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/blob/e204cd130/pkg/systemd/logsJournal.jsx#L206-L210
Red Hat

2451155 – (CVE-2026-4802) CVE-2026-4802 cockpit: Cockpit: Arbitrary command execution via crafted links in system logs UI

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2451155
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

cve-details

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4802

Patch Availability(10)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatcockpit-0:334.3-1.el9_62026-05-28redhat
redhatcockpit-0:310.8-1.el8_102026-05-28redhat
redhatcockpit-0:311.3-1.el9_42026-05-28redhat
redhatcockpit-0:356.2-1.el10_22026-05-28redhat
redhatcockpit-0:286.3-1.el9_22026-05-27redhat
redhatcockpit-0:334.2-1.el10_02026-05-27redhat
redhatcockpit-0:264.3-1.el8_62026-05-27redhat
redhatcockpit-0:264.3-1.el9_02026-05-27redhat
redhatcockpit-0:286.2-1.el8_82026-05-27redhat
redhatcockpit-0:356.2-1.el9_82026-05-27redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
cockpit239-1 ... 365-1~bpo13+1 (182 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
cockpit287-1 ... 368-1~bpo13+1 (130 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
cockpit337-1, 337-1+deb13u1
  • every version up to 337-1+deb13u2: fixed in 337-1+deb13u2
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
cockpit337-1 ... 362-1~bpo13+1 (30 versions)
  • every version up to 362-1: fixed in 362-1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(3)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 35× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 305 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 205 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  9. 2026-10-17 12:31 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-17 12:31 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-17 12:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3wjm-5g86-c6p3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.0
  12. 2026-10-16 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.2% · 67th percentile
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  33. 2026-08-23 18:41 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-08-23 18:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3wjm-5g86-c6p3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.0
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  43. 2026-08-17 11:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3wjm-5g86-c6p3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.0
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  47. 2026-08-16 04:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3wjm-5g86-c6p3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.0
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  54. 2026-08-14 14:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3wjm-5g86-c6p3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.0
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  57. 2026-08-14 03:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3wjm-5g86-c6p3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.0
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  60. 2026-08-13 04:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3wjm-5g86-c6p3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.0
  61. 2026-08-12 16:31 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-08-12 16:31 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-08-12 16:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3wjm-5g86-c6p3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.0
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  67. 2026-08-11 15:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3wjm-5g86-c6p3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.0
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  70. 2026-08-11 01:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3wjm-5g86-c6p3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.0
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  73. 2026-08-10 12:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3wjm-5g86-c6p3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.0
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  75. 2026-08-10 01:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3wjm-5g86-c6p3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.0

Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub PoChakaioffsec/CVE-2026-4802
    Published May 11, 2026

    Arbitrary command execution on Cockpit

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-4802?
CVE-2026-4802 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on May 11, 2026. A flaw was found in Cockpit. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to achieve arbitrary command execution on the host by exploiting unsanitized user-controlled parameters within crafted links in the system logs user interface (UI). An attacker can inject shell metacharacters and command…
When was CVE-2026-4802 made public?
CVE-2026-4802 was made public on May 11, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on May 11, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of July 15, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-4802 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-4802 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (67th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-4802?
CVE-2026-4802 has a CVSS base score of 8.0 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-4802?
A fix for CVE-2026-4802 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-4802 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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