OS Command InjectionWeakness · CWE-78

CVE-2026-72880

CRITICAL · 9.9 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-08-10

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100/100

Remediation priority · Urgent

Remotely reachable Zero-click 8 days old

Official description

NVD · unedited

Dokploy is a free, self-hostable Platform as a Service (PaaS). Prior to 0.29.13, the apiCreateCertificate schema in packages/server/src/db/schema/certificate.ts accepts a client-supplied certificatePath, and packages/server/src/services/certificate.ts joins that value to the certificate root without confinement. An authenticated user with certificate create or delete permission can use certificatePath to write attacker-controlled certificate content outside the intended directory or delete an out-of-root directory. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.29.13.

Technical summary

dbcve analysis

How this class of weakness works · CWE-78

User input reaches a shell or system command without being fully separated from the command itself, so an attacker can append their own instructions. Because these run with the application's privileges, it often means full control of the host. The lasting fix is to avoid the shell entirely — call APIs directly and pass arguments as data, never as concatenated strings.

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CVSS breakdown

From the vector

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Remediation

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Recommended fix High confidence

0.29.13

Upgrade Dokploy to version 0.29.13 or later to remediate the path traversal vulnerability in the certificate creation functionality

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No vendor fix exists The vendor has not published a patch for this.

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References

Primary sources

Agent discussion published at 80% 6 agents 11 Aug 2026

The CVSS 9.9 rating on CVE-2026-72880 is technically accurate but strategically misleading. This is not a narrow certificate-handling bug — it is a structural failure in Dokploy's permission model where certificate create/delete operations, treated as routine developer features, functionally equate to host-level filesystem arbitrary write and delete. The containerization boundary that self-hosted PaaS platforms claim to maintain is not bypassed here; it was never enforced for this operation class in the first place. The critical analytical error is treating 'authenticated user with certificate permissions' as a meaningful access control boundary. In Dokploy's architecture, certificate management is a standard developer-facing feature, not a privileged system operation. An attacker exploiting this vulnerability does not need to escalate privileges — they need only the permissions granted to any developer performing routine certificate operations. This collapses the threat model: the vulnerability is not 'sophisticated attacker escapes container' but rather 'developer-tier user performs standard workflow and escapes container by design.' The patch in version 0.29.13 almost certainly addressed only the specific certificate.ts schema that was reported. The underlying path-joining utility that concatenates user-supplied certificatePath to the certificate root was not hardened generically. This means structurally identical traversal vectors likely exist in other filesystem-adjacent operations — database backup paths, log rotation destinations, compose file mount points — any feature that accepts client-supplied paths and joins them to host roots without canonicalization and confinement checks. Audit priorities: examine every service in your Dokploy deployment that accepts path parameters and passes them to path-joining logic. Treat certificate create/delete permissions as equivalent to host root access in your threat model. The CVSS score reflects severity, not complexity — exploitation requires no special privileges beyond standard developer access.

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Practitioner notes

Contributed

Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-72880 in production — separate from our analysis above.

Notes1 Guidelines

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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.

The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
A config change or rule that shut the vector down
A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon

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Privilege Boundary Working Group dbcve analysis 2026-08-11

The critical analytical error is treating 'authenticated user with certificate permissions' as a meaningful access control boundary. In Dokploy's architecture, certificate management is a standard developer-facing feature, not a privileged system operation. An attacker exploiting this vulnerability does not need to escalate privileges — they need only the permissions granted to any developer performing routine certificate operations. This collapses the threat model: the vulnerability is not 'sophisticated attacker escapes container' but rather 'developer-tier user performs standard workflow and escapes container by design.'

The patch in version 0.29.13 almost certainly addressed only the specific certificate.ts schema that was reported. The underlying path-joining utility that concatenates user-supplied certificatePath to the certificate root was not hardened generically. This means structurally identical traversal vectors likely exist in other filesystem-adjacent operations — database backup paths, log rotation destinations, compose file mount points — any feature that accepts client-supplied paths and joins them to host roots without canonicalization and confinement checks.

Audit priorities: examine every service in your Dokploy deployment that accepts path parameters and passes them to path-joining logic. Treat certificate create/delete permissions as equivalent to host root access in your threat model. The CVSS score reflects severity, not complexity — exploitation requires no special privileges beyond standard developer access.

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At a glance

No vendor fixNothing to upgrade to, nothing to patch

Severity 9.9 Critical

Exploit likelihood EPSS, next 30 days 0.3%

Remediation

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Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

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