
Attackers exploit Barracuda ESG flaws to gain root access
Barracuda says a small number of customers were hit after patches for CVE-2026-116606 and CVE-2026-111560 shipped a week earlier.
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Barracuda says a small number of customers were hit after patches for CVE-2026-116606 and CVE-2026-111560 shipped a week earlier.
An authenticated attacker can run unauthorized commands by sending a crafted HTTP request to the system-ha plugin.
Crafted HA join-request packets can run unauthorized commands; no CVE or versions are named.
A member changing a database password can reach host command execution; the researcher live-tested the official v0.31.0 image.
The escaping bug allows injecting arbitrary commands into IRC server traffic using the label message tag.

Patching required for chained authentication bypass and command injection flaws in Barracuda products.

Critical CVE-2026-28336 in SolarWinds Dameware allows attackers to take over remotely controlled computers.

Barracuda patched CVE-2026-116606 and CVE-2026-111560 which together could allow root access to affected appliances when exploited with administrative interface access.

CVE-2026-116606 and CVE-2026-111560 could enable root access on ESG appliances.

SolarWinds Dameware 2026.3 command injection vulnerability allows remote compromise; fixed in 2026.3.1.

Patches released for CVE-2026-116606 authorization bypass and CVE-2026-111560 command injection in Barracuda Email Security Gateway and other products.

Chaining the two vulnerabilities allows root access if the admin interface is accessible; restrict admin exposure to internal networks and update firmware.

Six Barracuda gateways and management products below stated builds are affected; the Cyber Centre says updates are available.

Coordinated attack on 61 repositories used command injection in GitHub Actions to steal CI/CD secrets; 83 malicious issues and PRs identified.
Affects versions before 0.54; no fixed version or exploitation stated.
A low-privilege authenticated diagnostics request can run OS commands in the web-service context.
A saved monitoring field is reused by a scheduled ping thread for recurring command execution.
ZDI-26-814 is an unpatched CVSS 7.8 flaw that needs a user to open a file or visit a page.
SSHRemoteJobOperator quotes templated environment values only once inside an already-quoted wrapper, so $(...) runs remotely.
musl and macOS libc can still treat some patterns as command substitutions even when WRDE_NOCMD is set.

Eight CVEs score CVSS 10.0; unauthenticated AOS-8 flaws can run commands as root, and HPE knew of no public exploit code.

CVE-2026-115547 is scored 9.1 but needs Admin Console privileges, and the advisory reports no known exploitation.
CVE-2026-110447 in Collabora Online's built-in CODE Server is actively exploited; FCEB agencies must prioritize fixes.
Versions before 26.4.303 allow remote code execution when the built-in CODE server is not running.
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