HestiaCP before 1.10.5 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability that allows non-ROOT_USER administrators to perform write actions while impersonating the protected ROOT_USER account. Attackers can log in via the loginas parameter and POST to /add/cron/, because the read-only flag is never checked, causing crond to run their commands as the protected administrator's system account.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.6NVD modified 2026-10-16 20:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 7
- https://github.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/blob/1.10.4/web/add/cron/index.php#L11-L70
- https://github.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/blob/1.10.4/web/inc/policies.php#L3-L14
- https://github.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/commit/1af7e057cd5ad2ea945acba6c9932ea1a1802c24
- https://github.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/releases/tag/1.10.5
- https://github.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/security/advisories/GHSA-vp7q-fjv5-5vg8
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hestiacp-before-1.10.5-protected-admin-bypass-via-cron-job-creation
- https://github.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/security/advisories/GHSA-vp7q-fjv5-5vg8