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CVE-2026-33590: Portainer Community Edition · Incorrect Default Permissions

Affects Portainer Community EditionSource CVE Database V5

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Public exploit available · CVSS 8.5 High : upgrade to 2.39.0 or 2.38.0 as a priority.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 06:59 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
8.5High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 39% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 2.39.0, 2.38.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:P

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 28 May 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: evidence found.

    CVSS exploit maturity: proof of concept public

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), CVSS vector, the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade Portainer Community Edition to 2.39.0 or 2.38.0.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
PortainerPortainer Community EditionAffected
  • <2.39.0
Fixed in
  • 2.39.0
PortainerPortainer Community EditionAffected
  • <2.38.0
Fixed in
  • 2.38.0

AI-suggested

If you cannot patch yet, restrict endpoint access to trusted users only and consider additional access controls or monitoring to limit exploitation potential.

Description

Insecure default settings of Portainer CE grant regular (non-admin) users privileges that allow host filesystem access and host-level code execution. An authenticated non-administrative user with endpoint access can exploit these settings to read host files or obtain root equivalent access on the host.

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