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CVE-2026-66088EUVD-2026-112564

Unrestricted Command Execution via system.execute

Published
Last modified
Status
published
Known exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2026.1
Public exploit
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
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CISA SSVC
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total
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Decision points from CISA's Vulnrichment, assessed (SSVC 2.0.3).

SSVC documentation

Summary

openEQUELLA, an open-source learning content management platform, is affected. An attacker who can create or edit scripts can run arbitrary operating system commands with the privileges of the openEQUELLA service account.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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In openEQUELLA before 2026.1, the system.execute() function available to the scripting engine runs supplied operating system commands without validation or an allow-list of permitted executables. A user able to create or edit scripts can use it to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the openEQUELLA service account.

Affected versions

  • Apereo Foundation openEQUELLA

    fixed in 2026.1

References 2

GitHub · openequella/openEQUELLA

openequella.github.io