# CVE-2026-105217 — cockpit-hq cockpit

> As of 2026-10-04, CVE-2026-105217 is a LOW-severity vulnerability in cockpit-hq cockpit, CVSS v3.1 3.1. No Threadlinqs-tracked threat campaign has been attributed to CVE-2026-105217 as of 2026-10-04; the identifier is re-checked against the Threadlinqs threat corpus on every daily ingest.

**Last updated:** 2026-10-04

## What is CVE-2026-105217?

Cockpit CMS 2.12.0 before 2.14.1 disables TLS certificate verification in the cron.php web worker restart request, allowing network attackers to capture the worker token. Man-in-the-middle attackers on the outbound path to site_url can present any certificate to steal the worker/web/token value and start the web worker.

The record classifies CVE-2026-105217 under weakness class [CWE-295](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/cwe/CWE-295). Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable from an adjacent network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 1 day ago.

## Severity and exploitation probability

- **CVSS v3.1 base score:** 3.1 — LOW (`CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **CVSS v4.0 base score:** 2.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **CISA KEV:** Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- **Threadlinqs priority:** 1.6/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- **Published:** 2026-10-04

## Is CVE-2026-105217 being exploited?

It currently carries a trending score of 30 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

## Affected products and versions

- **cockpit-hq**: cockpit

## How to fix CVE-2026-105217

No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-105217 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.

## Threat activity tracking CVE-2026-105217

No threat campaign in the Threadlinqs corpus currently references CVE-2026-105217, in its CVE list or as an indicator. The linkage is recomputed from the live corpus on every daily ingest, so this section fills in as soon as a tracked campaign cites the identifier.

## Sources

Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, GitHub Security Advisories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on 2026-10-05. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

**Vendor advisory and patch**

- [github.com — patch](https://github.com/Cockpit-HQ/Cockpit/commit/c611492adc17362578faa97f9c30b41e6c16e040)

**Technical analysis**

- [github.com — technical description](https://github.com/Cockpit-HQ/Cockpit/blob/2.14.0/cron.php#L70-L102)

**Third-party advisory**

- [vulncheck.com — third party advisory](https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cockpit-cms-2.12.0-before-2.14.1-disabled-tls-verification-via-cron-php)

**Issue tracking and product pages**

- [github.com — issue tracking](https://github.com/Cockpit-HQ/Cockpit/issues/318)
- [github.com — product](https://github.com/Cockpit-HQ/Cockpit)

Canonical: https://intel.threadlinqs.com/cve/CVE-2026-105217
Full detection coverage and IOCs for threats exploiting CVE-2026-105217 via the Threadlinqs MCP server (Purple tier): https://intel.threadlinqs.com/mcp