CVE•Published 2026-08-11•Modified 2026-08-28•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-72603

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1
9.9
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
81
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 19% of all CVEs
Description

An OS command injection vulnerability in wg-easy 15.3.0 allows users with the clients.create permission to execute arbitrary commands as root by injecting newline-delimited WireGuard PostUp directives into the client name field. The client name is written to the WireGuard configuration file without neutralizing newline characters, allowing injection of arbitrary directives that are executed by wg-quick with root privileges. An attacker with clients.create permission achieves root code execution on the host.

Timeline
Published 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-28

External references

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

More intel sources (5)

Known PoCs on GitHub

No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-72603 on GitHub.