CVE-2026-120495 PUBLISHED

Arbitrary file write and code execution via crafted Synthetic Monitoring agent data

Assigner: Checkmk
Reserved: 02.11.2026 Published: 11.11.2026 Updated: 11.11.2026

Path traversal in the Synthetic Monitoring "Robotmk" test service of Checkmk <2.5.0p19, <2.4.0p40, and 2.3.0 (EOL) allows an attacker who controls the agent output of a monitored host's check output for a host to inject a crafted robot output to define the contents and location for the generated HTML log, leading to code execution as the site user.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CVSS Score: 9.4

Product Status

Vendor Checkmk GmbH
Product Checkmk
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2.5.0 to 2.5.0p19 (excl.)
  • affected from 2.4.0 to 2.4.0p40 (excl.)
  • Version 2.3.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-139: Relative Path Traversal