# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

## Instructions for the operator's AI
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- Obtain operator approval before production changes. No commands or remediation were generated. This historical snapshot does not establish current applicability, a released fix or exploitation; no network or model call generated this brief.

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-4802"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-11T12:48:08.657Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-15T00:48:35.986Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-4802"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-4802.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-4802"
title: "Cockpit: cockpit: arbitrary command execution via crafted links in system logs ui"
summary: "A flaw was found in Cockpit. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to achieve arbitrary command execution on the host by exploiting unsanitized user-controlled parameters within crafted links in the system logs user interface (UI). An attacker can inject shell metacharacters and command substitutions into these parameters, leading to the execution of arbitrary shell commands on the affected system. This could result in a complete system compromise."
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