Description
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection') in the Orchestrator component of SoftIron HyperCloud allows an authenticated user with access to the management plane to execute arbitrary operating system commands on hypervisor hosts as the privileged orchestration user. Attacker-controlled virtual machine template content (for example, the VM DESCRIPTION field) is delivered to hosts through a shell here-document whose terminator is not quoted, so shell expansion and here-document terminator injection are performed on that content during virtual machine lifecycle operations such as deploy, migrate, and network setup. Exploitation requires valid credentials, access to the management plane (owning a virtual machine alone is not sufficient), and a lifecycle operation that reaches the affected host. This issue affects the Orchestrator component of SoftIron HyperCloud from 1.0 through 2.6.17 and is fixed in 2.6.18.
Published: 2026-10-31
Score: 7.4 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

Vendor Solution

Upgrade to SoftIron HyperCloud 2.6.18 or later.


Vendor Workaround

No complete workaround exists prior to upgrading. To reduce exposure, restrict access to the management plane and restrict creation and modification of virtual machine templates and template fields (such as DESCRIPTION) to trusted administrators, and limit which users can trigger virtual machine lifecycle operations (deploy, migrate, network setup). In deployments where the management plane is air-gapped or otherwise not reachable from a general network, the practical exposure is correspondingly reduced.

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Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:15:00 +0000

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Description Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection') in the Orchestrator component of SoftIron HyperCloud allows an authenticated user with access to the management plane to execute arbitrary operating system commands on hypervisor hosts as the privileged orchestration user. Attacker-controlled virtual machine template content (for example, the VM DESCRIPTION field) is delivered to hosts through a shell here-document whose terminator is not quoted, so shell expansion and here-document terminator injection are performed on that content during virtual machine lifecycle operations such as deploy, migrate, and network setup. Exploitation requires valid credentials, access to the management plane (owning a virtual machine alone is not sufficient), and a lifecycle operation that reaches the affected host. This issue affects the Orchestrator component of SoftIron HyperCloud from 1.0 through 2.6.17 and is fixed in 2.6.18.
Title SoftIron HyperCloud: OS Command Injection in Orchestrator via Virtual Machine Template Fields
Weaknesses CWE-78
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: SoftIron

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-31T01:56:35.922Z

Reserved: 2026-10-26T20:39:27.307Z

Link: CVE-2026-116755

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-31T02:17:33.957

Modified: 2026-10-31T02:17:33.957

Link: CVE-2026-116755

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