[CVE-2026-12196] HestiaCP Admin Takeover & RCE
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Summary
Project Black details CVE-2026-12196 in HestiaCP: a broken authorization check lets any low-privileged user exploit panel cron jobs to run sudo scripts and reset the admin password.
- CVE
- CVE-2026-12196
- Published
- Collected
--- id: 3709 title: "[CVE-2026-12196] HestiaCP Admin Takeover & RCE" cve: CVE-2026-12196 source_domain: projectblack.io source_url: "https://projectblack.io/blog/hestiacp-admin-takeover-rce/" published_at: "2026-07-04 12:00" tags: ["rce", "vulnerability-research", "access-control", "hestiacp", "privilege-escalation", "vulnerability", "broken-authorization", "cve-2026-12196"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3709" lang: en --- # [CVE-2026-12196] HestiaCP Admin Takeover & RCE ## Summary Project Black details CVE-2026-12196 in HestiaCP: a broken authorization check lets any low-privileged user exploit panel cron jobs to run sudo scripts and reset the admin password. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** projectblack.io - **CVE:** CVE-2026-12196 - **Published:** 2026-07-04 12:00 - **Original:** https://projectblack.io/blog/hestiacp-admin-takeover-rce/ - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3709