CVE-2026-68488

critical · 9.9

A Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition leading to insecure symlink following in Plesk causes local privilege escalation to root via arbitrary file/directory ownership takeover.

9.9

CVSS

0.4%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

34th

EPSS percentile

2026-09-10

Published

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-367

References

https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/43248932867351-Vulnerability-in-Plesk-s-Backup-Manager-symlink-race-during-restore-allows-root-privilege-escalation

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2026-68488