CVE-2026-41857 PUBLISHED

BOSH CLI Shell Injection

Assigner: vmware
Reserved: 22.04.2026 Published: 09.07.2026 Updated: 09.07.2026

A compromised or malicious BOSH Director can execute arbitrary shell commands on the operator's workstation when the operator runs bosh ssh (or bosh scp/bosh logs -f) with default flags. Affected versions: BOSH CLI versions prior to 7.10.5.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.1

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Local	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	High	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	Present	Availability	High	Availability	None
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Active

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	CloudFoundry BOSH
Product	BOSH CLI
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 7.10.5 (excl.)

References

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2026-41857-bosh-cli-shell-injection/

Problem Types

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') CWE

Impacts

Arbitrary shell command execution on the operator's workstation.