Arcane provides modern docker management. Prior to 1.13.0, Arcane has a command injection in the updater service. Arcane’s updater service supported lifecycle labels com.getarcaneapp.arcane.lifecycle.pre-update and com.getarcaneapp.arcane.lifecycle.post-update that allowed defining a command to run before or after a container update. The label value is passed directly to /bin/sh -c without sanitization or validation. Because any authenticated user (not limited to administrators) can create projects through the API, an attacker can create a project that specifies one of these lifecycle labels with a malicious command. When an administrator later triggers a container update (either manually or via scheduled update checks), Arcane reads the lifecycle label and executes its value as a shell command inside the container. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.13.0.
CVE-2026-23520
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.
Score 9.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-01-15. NVD baseline CVSS 8.0; sources differ by 1.0.
Also known asEUVD-2026-2738 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-gjqq-6r35-w3r8 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 8.0
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 57EG Risk 57/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity90% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation40% × 40%EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines. - EPSS PROB
- 1.8%
- EPSS %ILE
- 79th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 9.0 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 1.8% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
January 15, 2026
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
Advisory Details (4)
Auto-updated Jul 6, 2026Command Injection in Arcane Updater Lifecycle Labels Enables RCE · Advisory · getarcaneapp/arcane · GitHub
https://github.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/security/advisories/GHSA-gjqq-6r35-w3r8v1.13.0
Patch available: getarcaneapp/arcane v1.13.0
https://github.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/releases/tag/v1.13.0fix: remove updater lifecycle hooks
Fix merged in getarcaneapp/arcane PR #1468 on 2026-01-14 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/pull/1468commit 5a9c2f92e11f (getarcaneapp/arcane)
Fix landed in getarcaneapp/arcane commit 5a9c2f92e11f — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/commit/5a9c2f92e11f86f8997da8c672844468f930b7e4Patch Availability(1)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | github.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/backend @ 0.0.0-20260114065515-5a9c2f92e11f (fixes < 0.0.0-20260114065515-5a9c2f92e11f) | — | ghsa |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Go(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| github.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/backend | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
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- 2026-11-02 06:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gjqq-6r35-w3r8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
- 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 79th percentile
- 2026-11-01 07:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-gjqq-6r35-w3r8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
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Publicly available exploits
(2 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (2 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- GitHub PoCcypher-21/CVE-2026-23520Published Mar 23, 2026
CVE-2026-23520 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Arcane, a modern Docker management platform. The flaw exists in the platform's updater service and allows for Remote Code Execution (RCE)
Open source ↗ - Open source ↗GitHub PoCAugmaster/POC-CVE-2026-23520Published Mar 21, 2026
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