CVE-2026-86177 PUBLISHED

Pterodactyl Panel before 1.14.1 Privilege Escalation via Schedule Tasks

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 05.09.2026 Published: 05.09.2026 Updated: 05.09.2026

Pterodactyl Panel before 1.14.1 fails to validate action-specific permissions in scheduled task creation, allowing subusers with only schedule.update permission to execute arbitrary console commands. Attackers can create and immediately trigger scheduled tasks that run game-server console commands, control server power state, or create backups without proper authorization checks.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor pterodactyl
Product panel
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.14.1 (excl.)
  • Version 1.14.1 is unaffected

Credits

  • George Chen reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Missing Authorization CWE