CVE-2026-26279 CRITICAL

CVE-2026-26279: Froxlor Admin-to-Root Privilege Escalation via Input Validation Bypass + OS Command Injection

Vendor Froxlor
Product Froxlor
Weakness CWE-78
Published March 3, 2026
Last update March 4, 2026

CVSS base score

9.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Froxlor is open source server administration software. Prior to 2.3.4, a typo in Froxlor's input validation code (== instead of =) completely disables email format checking for all settings fields declared as email type. This allows an authenticated admin to store arbitrary strings in the panel.adminmail setting. This value is later concatenated into a shell command executed as root by a cron job, where the pipe character | is explicitly whitelisted. The result is full root-level Remote Code Execution. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.3.4.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 3, 2026 CVE published
March 4, 2026 Record updated