Vulnerability record

CVE-2026-13162

Severity: HighExploitation: No known exploitation

Patch status

No official fix confirmed yet

Until a fix ships, follow the vendor's mitigations, limit exposure of affected systems, and watch this record for a patch.

Description

An OS command vulnerability exists in CoreTec product that allows authenticated users with certain roles to execute arbitrary system commands with full control over the device. The vulnerability exists in the configuration daemon's time synchronization handler, which is responsible for setting the system time-zone. When processing time-zone configuration updates, the daemon constructs a shell command by concatenating user-supplied input without any sanitization or validation.

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database. Official vulnerability data, reproduced as published.

Intelligence timeline

Developments from the last 30 days, newest first.

  1. CVSS scoredUpdate

    CVE-2026-13162 scored CVSS 7.7

    Basis: NIST National Vulnerability Database

Coverage

References

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