High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-33590
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 16:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2026-33590
Complete source record
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"published_at": "2026-05-28T20:16:23.163+00:00"
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