Authenticated data exposure via SSH option injection
Published Feb 18, 2026 · Updated Feb 18, 2026
Argument injection in Weblate before 5.16.0 allows remote authenticated users to expose data through crafted SSH host input. The management console's SSHAddForm passed an unvalidated hostname to the SSH key-scanning subprocess, allowing a leading hyphen to be interpreted as an option. High-privilege console access is required; the vendor reports confidentiality impact but does not identify the exposed data.
Summary
What happened
Argument injection in Weblate before 5.16.0 allows remote authenticated users to expose data through crafted SSH host input. The management console's SSHAddForm passed an unvalidated hostname to the SSH key-scanning subprocess, allowing a leading hyphen to be interpreted as an option. High-privilege console access is required; the vendor reports confidentiality impact but does not identify the exposed data.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-24126
- Published
- Feb 18, 2026
- Updated
- Feb 18, 2026
- Vendor
- Weblate
- Product
- Weblate
- Classifications
- CWE-88
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
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- Feb 18, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 18, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 5.16.0
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