CVE-2026-33457 Potential livestatus injection in prediction graph page

Medium 5.3 Published Updated

An authenticated attacker can inject arbitrary Livestatus commands via a crafted service name in Checkmk, potentially leading to code execution.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2026-33457?

CVE-2026-33457 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Checkmk Checkmk, published on 10 Apr 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Livestatus injection in the prediction graph page in Checkmk <2.5.0b4, <2.4.0p26, and <2.3.0p47 allows an authenticated user to inject arbitrary Livestatus commands via a crafted service name parameter due to insufficient sanitization of the service description value.

Weakness: CWE-140

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-33457?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Checkmk Checkmk.

How do I fix CVE-2026-33457?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-33457 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2026-33457 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-33457 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-8gxr-c98h-cwxm, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-33457.

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