CVE-2026-5789

Name	CVE-2026-5789
Description	Vulnerability related to an unquoted search path in CivetWeb v1.16. This vulnerability allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges by placing a malicious executable in a directory that is scanned before the intended application path (C:\Program Files\CivetWeb\CivetWeb.exe --), due to the absence of quotes in the service configuration.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
civetweb (PTS)	bullseye	1.13+dfsg-5	fixed
	bookworm	1.15+dfsg-4	fixed
	trixie	1.16+dfsg-2+deb13u1	fixed
	forky, sid	1.16+dfsg-4	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
civetweb	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- civetweb <not-affected> (Not applicable to Civetweb as packaged on Linux)