Latent object injection via unrestricted changelog deserialization
Published Feb 20, 2026 · Updated Feb 20, 2026
Unsafe deserialization in openITCOCKPIT Community Edition 5.3.1 and earlier creates a latent PHP object-injection sink in changelog handling. Changelog.php and ChangelogsController.php pass persisted, attacker-influenced changelog data to PHP unserialize() without disabling allowed classes. Current endpoints store only arrays and scalars, so no direct HTTP injection path is known; database-seeded objects demonstrated arbitrary file writes and code execution.
Summary
What happened
Unsafe deserialization in openITCOCKPIT Community Edition 5.3.1 and earlier creates a latent PHP object-injection sink in changelog handling. Changelog.php and ChangelogsController.php pass persisted, attacker-influenced changelog data to PHP unserialize() without disabling allowed classes. Current endpoints store only arrays and scalars, so no direct HTTP injection path is known; database-seeded objects demonstrated arbitrary file writes and code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-24892
- Published
- Feb 20, 2026
- Updated
- Feb 20, 2026
- Vendor
- AVENDIS GmbH
- Product
- openITCOCKPIT
- Classifications
- CWE-502
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 20, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 20, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 5.4.0
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