Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-23520

CVE-2026-23520

getarcaneapp arcane — Arcane has a Command Injection in Arcane Updater Lifecycle Labels Enables RCE

Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
arcane< 1.13.0–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/security/advisories/GHSA-gjqq-6r35-w3r8refgithub.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/pull/1468refgithub.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/commit/5a9c2f92e11f86f8997da8c672844468f930b7e4refgithub.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/releases/tag/v1.13.0