CVE-2026-5208

HIGH

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') in coolercontrold

Title source: cna

Description

Command injection in alerts in CoolerControl/coolercontrold <4.0.0 allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code as root via injected bash commands in alert names

References (2)

https://gitlab.com/coolercontrol/coolercontrol/-/blob/3.1.0/coolercontrold/src/alerts.rs?ref_type=tags#L576

View Writeup ZIP pw:eip

https://gitlab.com/coolercontrol/coolercontrol/-/releases/4.0.0

Scores

CVSS v3 8.2

EPSS 0.0037

EPSS Percentile 58.9%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-78

Status published

Products (2)

CoolerControl/coolercontrold 3.1.0 - 4.0.0

coolercontrol/coolercontrold 3.1.0 - 4.0.0

Published Apr 08, 2026

Tracked Since Apr 08, 2026