High severity · published Jan 15, 2026
CVE-2026-23520
Arcane has a Command Injection in Arcane Updater Lifecycle Labels Enables RCE
8.0
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 79% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AR
arcane · getarcaneapp
< 1.13.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23520
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23520
Exploit
https://github.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/commit/5a9c2f92e11f86f8997da8c672844468f930b7e4
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/pull/1468
Release Notes
https://github.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/releases/tag/v1.13.0
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/getarcaneapp/arcane/security/advisories/GHSA-gjqq-6r35-w3r8
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