Vulnerability · Published Sep 5, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

CVE-2026-86177Pterodactyl Panel before 1.14.1 Privilege Escalation via Schedule Tasks

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity missing authorization in panel from pterodactyl. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 48% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 52.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
pterodactyl	panel	0 – before 1.14.1

Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Patch Commit patch
Researcher Advisory third-party-advisory, exploit
StoreTaskRequest permission and rules technical-description
RunTaskJob action dispatch technical-description
Pterodactyl Panel v1.14.1 Release Notes release-notes
https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel product
VulnCheck Advisory: Pterodactyl Panel before 1.14.1 Privilege Escalation via Schedule Tasks third-party-advisory